An English, Scottish and Irish female given name, commonly regarded as a form of Mary (anglicised from Irish Máire and Scottish Gaelic Màiri).
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A female given name of Italian derivation, the feminine of Mauro.
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Maura Sentence Examples
Zaimis - who had gone for a holiday to Santa Maura - elected a committee of six to govern the island in the name of the king of Greece.
By the peace signed on the 24th of December 1502, however, the status quo was practically restored, the sultan contenting himself with receiving Santa Maura in exchange for Cephalonia.
Ddrpfeld has suggested that the Homeric Ithaca is not the island which was called Ithaca by the later Greeks, but must be identified with Leucas (Santa Maura, q.v.).
Santa Maura, measuring about 20 m.
The chief town (5000 inhabitants), properly called Amaxikhi or Hamaxichi but more usually Santa Maura, after the neighbouring fort, is situated at the N.E.