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Roxane

Roxane

English

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Proper noun

Roxane

  1. A female given name borrowed from the French form of Roxana.
    • 1897 Edmond Rostand: Cyrano de Bergerac (1923 translation by Brian Hooker):
      Your name is like a golden bell
      Hung in my heart; and when I think of you,
      I tremble, and the bell swings and rings - "Roxane!"
      "Roxane!"...along my veins, "Roxane!"

French

Proper noun

Roxane

  1. Roxana ( the wife of Alexander the Great )
  2. A female given name, equivalent to Roxana.