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aurelia

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What does aurelia mean?

proper noun

  1. A female given name from Latin.
More meanings (1)

noun

  1. (archaic) The chrysalis of an insect, especially of a butterfly.

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To his amusement it proved to be a book of “Devotional and Kindred Poems; by Mrs. Aurelia S. Larsen.”
Willa CatherThe Song of the LarkProject Gutenberg ebook #44
The other culprit was Anthony Pye, who poured the last drops of water from his slate bottle down the back of Aurelia Clay’s neck.
L. M. (Lucy Maud) MontgomeryAnne of AvonleaProject Gutenberg ebook #47
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But there was strict watch kept on her apartment, and Caesar's mother, Aurelia, who was a discreet woman, being continually about her, made any interview very dangerous and difficult.
PlutarchPlutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and RomansProject Gutenberg ebook #674
And it is to me observable, that at a fixed age this caterpillar gives over to eat, and towards winter comes to be covered over with a strange shell or crust, called an aurelia; and so lives a kind of dead life, without eating all the winter.
Izaak WaltonThe Compleat AnglerProject Gutenberg ebook #683