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Madrigal

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Darkbehindthecurtain · 16/10/2015 22:14

Do you like this as a girls' name, or is it to out there?

I quite like Madeleine but I don't like Madison.

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Vixxfacee · 16/10/2015 22:15

Mad gal

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot · 16/10/2015 22:16

It's a random noun, not a name.

Perhaps Aria or Calypso, which are established names and also types of music, instead.

StrawberryTeaLeaf · 16/10/2015 22:17

There's an MNer by that name

I quite like it. It's better than Maypole etc. Better associations. Awkward if she grows up to be of the 'tuneless dirge' school of thought about them, though

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Darkbehindthecurtain · 16/10/2015 22:17

Calypso is a lolly :)

Aria is pretty but doesn't go with my second name.

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Darkbehindthecurtain · 16/10/2015 22:18

I like the sound as a name. It's not so much linked to music as just thinking it sounds pretty. It's also unusual but Maddie is far more common.

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fearsomepixie · 16/10/2015 22:20

Makes me think of Blackadder. "Hot sex madrigal in the middle of my tights".

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Darkbehindthecurtain · 16/10/2015 22:20

Never seen it.

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Boredofthinkingofnewnames · 16/10/2015 22:21

It sounds like a prescription drug.

Only1scoop · 16/10/2015 22:22

Think it's daft

And tuneless

PolyesterBride · 16/10/2015 22:23

Makes me think of Tales of the City - Mrs Madrigal

StrawberryTeaLeaf · 16/10/2015 22:23

So you're not a fan of madrigals then?

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Darkbehindthecurtain · 16/10/2015 22:23

Not heard of that either.

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PeopleLieActionsDont · 16/10/2015 22:23

Isn't Madrigal a character from a book? I think it sounds made up. I like madeleine but I think it is too associated with the missing little girl, so I wouldn't choose it.

badg3r · 16/10/2015 22:24

Have you ever heard a madrigal? I would be really embarrassed if that was my name, and hope everyone thought Maddie was an abbreviation of Madeleine...

RJnomaaaaaargh · 16/10/2015 22:24

Lovely. There's a series of books with a madrigal. I'll try to find them.

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Darkbehindthecurtain · 16/10/2015 22:24

That's partly what puts me off Madeleine.

Madrigal is Renaissance song. It has a pretty sound, I think, and I do like the nickname Maddie.

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RJnomaaaaaargh · 16/10/2015 22:25

Daughter of smoke and bone by liana Taylor.

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Darkbehindthecurtain · 16/10/2015 22:26

Will have to read - hadn't heard of it :)

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Cerseirys · 16/10/2015 22:28

Isn't a madrigal a musical instrument?

Yarboosucks · 16/10/2015 22:28

A madrigal is a secular vocal music composition, usually a partsong, of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras. Traditionally, polyphonic madrigals are unaccompanied; the number of voices varies from two to eight, and most frequently from three to six.

Or of course there is Mrs Madrigal, the transgender landlady in Tales Of The City

reuset · 16/10/2015 22:28

Ooh we've had some corkers posted this week! This one doesn't win though.

Not good. And it sounds more like a name for boys or wizards But it's not really a proper name is my main gripe.

reuset · 16/10/2015 22:29

Yep, strong musical association, obviously, and I am most familiar with it as a surname.

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Darkbehindthecurtain · 16/10/2015 22:31

To ME, calypso is a lolly :)

My name isn't a 'proper' name.

I still think madrigal is pretty ... I like the fact it's unusual but has a more common abbreviated form.

I also like Callia, Astrid is a possibility but not really in love with it - think I like the meaning more than the name itself - and Mariana.

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Gobbolinothewitchscat · 16/10/2015 22:36

What do you mean it has a common abbreviated form?

madrigal is a noun. Madrigal singers don't go round saying they've just sung a "maddie".

It's like me calling DC3 Chair but then saying the common abbreviated form of that is Charlie. No it isn't. No one calls a chair a Charlie.

Only1scoop · 16/10/2015 22:37

A 'Madrigal' doesn't have a common abbreviated form as far as I know?

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