marguerite

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English - Turkish
çayır papatyası
{i} margrit
Chrysanthemum frutescens
kasımpatı
{i} papatya

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golden marguerite
sarıpapatya
English - English
A female given name borrowed from France in the 1860s
An oxeye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare)
borrowed from France in the 1860s
Any of several genera of golden daisylike flowers in the composite family. Yellow or white ray flowers and yellow disk flowers are borne in the compact flower heads. Marguerites are cultivated as garden ornamentals, especially golden marguerite, also called yellow chamomile (Anthemis tinctoria). See also chamomile, daisy. Marguerite Johnson Carnot Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Duras Marguerite Marguerite Donnadieu Marguerite Guggenheim Marguerite Radclyffe Hall Yourcenar Marguerite Marguerite de Crayencour Marguerite d'Angoulême
tall leafy-stemmed Eurasian perennial with white flowers; widely naturalized; often placed in genus Chrysanthemum
{i} daisy-like European plant with flowers with white petals and yellow centers (French)
perennial subshrub of the Canary Islands having usually pale yellow daisylike flowers; often included in genus Chrysanthemum
The name is often applied also to the ox-eye daisy and to the China aster
The daisy (Bellis perennis)

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Marguerite Duras
orig. Marguerite Donnadieu born April 4, 1914, Gia Dinh, Cochinchina died March 3, 1996, Paris, France French novelist, playwright, film director, and screenwriter. Indochina was the setting for Duras's first successful novel, The Sea Wall (1950). Her writing grew increasingly minimal and abstract, and she is sometimes associated with the nouveau roman ("new novel") movement. Perhaps her best-known novel is the semiautobiographical The Lover (1984, Prix Goncourt; film, 1992), about a French teenage girl's love affair with an older Chinese man; she revised this work as The North China Lover (1991). Her original screenplay for Hiroshima mon amour (1959) and her adaptation for film of her play India Song (1975) were highly acclaimed
Marguerite Yourcenar
orig. Marguerite de Crayencour born June 8, 1903, Brussels, Belg. died Dec. 17, 1987, Northeast Harbor, Maine, U.S. Belgian-born French-U.S. novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Independently wealthy after her father's death, she led a nomadic life until World War II, when she settled in the U.S. with the American woman who would be her lifelong companion and translator. Her works are noted for their rigorously classical style, their erudition, and their psychological subtlety. Her masterpiece is Memoirs of Hadrian (1951), a historical novel of the 2nd-century Roman Empire. Other works include the novels Coup de grâce (1939) and The Abyss (1968), Oriental Tales (1938), and the prose poem "Fires" (1936). In 1980 she became the first woman in history to be elected to the Académie Française
Lazare -Nicolas-Marguerite Carnot
born May 13, 1753, Nolay, Burgundy, France died Aug. 2, 1823, Magdeburg, Prussian Saxony French statesman and administrator in successive governments of the French Revolution. He entered the army as an engineer (1773) and was elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1791. As a leading member of the Committee of Public Safety and the Directory, he helped mobilize the Revolutionary armed forces and matériel, and he was lauded as the "Organizer of Victory." During the Coup of 18 Fructidor he fled France to escape arrest. He returned after Napoleon rose to power and served him in various offices, including minister of the interior during the Hundred Days
marguerite

    Hyphenation

    mar·gue·rite

    Turkish pronunciation

    märgırit

    Pronunciation

    /ˌmärgərˈēt/ /ˌmɑːrɡɜrˈiːt/

    Etymology

    () French equivalent of Margaret, ultimately from Greek "pearl". The name has also been adopted for a cultivated daisy.
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