Margery

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Proper noun

Margery

A female given name, from a medieval vernacular form of Margaret.
- c. 1596–1598, W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. With the Extreme Cruelty of Shylocke the Iew towards the saide Merchant, in Cutting a Iust Pound of His Flesh. And the Obtaining of Portia, by the Choyce of Three Caskets, quarto edition, [London]: Printed by J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, OCLC 24594216:
  : Act II, Scene II :
  I know not what I shall think of that; but I am Launcelot, the Jew's man, and I am sure Margery your wife is my mother.
- 2008 Kelly Chance Beckman: The Boomers!, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 242:
  Margery is her name, sounds like sweet butter on Kansas corn.

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