seraphine

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Seraphine¹

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Anglicized spelling of French Séraphine.

proper noun

  1. A female given name from Latin. By the time I carried tea and toast back through to Ruth, the baby was asleep, the umbilical cord tied off, and Ruth was stroking the tiny face with one finger. 'I'm going to call her Seraphine,' she said. 'She looks like an angel.'

seraphine²

noun seraphines

  1. An early wind instrument with a keyboard, resembling a cross between a reed organ and an accordion, which makes its sound by the action of air being blown across metallic reeds.

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@misc{seraphine_2026,
  title = {seraphine},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/seraphine},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}