They had an expensive, well-cut air which was like a uniform, and their conversation was all about people with names like Terence and Geoffrey, Philippa and Vivien, who lived in London and County Wicklow and who were terribly amusing.
a male given name. popular in the u.k. in the mid-twentieth century.
الواصلة
a male giv-en name. po-pu-lar in the u.k. in the mid-twentieth cen-tu-ry