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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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Permanentlyexhausted · 16/10/2015 22:53

It isn't a name though is it. Sorry - I think I'd find it hard not to laugh if I came across a real life Madrigal.

MummaGiles · 16/10/2015 22:53

Sorry, to me it is like that as that is the first thing that springs to mind when you say Madrigal. I suspect there will be others out there who will have the same reaction.

Only1scoop · 16/10/2015 22:53

Oh ok that's nice.

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Darkbehindthecurtain · 16/10/2015 22:50

Never heard of villarreals football stadium. It's hardly like naming a child anfield or Wembley!

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MummaGiles · 16/10/2015 22:49

It's the name of Villarreal's football stadium. It's like naming a child Anfield or Wembley.

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Darkbehindthecurtain · 16/10/2015 22:49

You may be right, reuset! Haven't had one in years, since I was a kid on holiday.

If I had a kid named calypso, I'd be forever singing 'SEE him LYING ON A BED OF STRAW ...'

Trillium, now, I saw that thread but it isn't a name I've considered, I must say!

Only, no, it's not. I've liked madrigal ever since I was a teenager.

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RJnomaaaaaargh · 16/10/2015 22:47

I love Astrid but madrigal is different in tone. I'd do it op. Read the books!

Gobbolinothewitchscat · 16/10/2015 22:46

Have you considered Trillium [innocent face!]?

reuset · 16/10/2015 22:46

My legs are getting a bit sore from all the pulling this week Grin

Mynameismummy · 16/10/2015 22:45

Not a name. It's a noun! Avoid..... Madeleine is nice though!

Only1scoop · 16/10/2015 22:44

This has got to be a wind up

StrawberryTeaLeaf · 16/10/2015 22:43

Gobbolino Grin Chair/Charlie thread could happen yet Grin

reuset · 16/10/2015 22:43

*A 'Madrigal' doesn't have a common abbreviated form as far as I know?
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Darkbehindthecurtain Fri 16-Oct-15 22:38:15

Maddie?

Grin This is too funny.

I thought the lolly was Calippo. Calypso conjures up mythology and literature, not frozen snacks Grin

Only1scoop · 16/10/2015 22:41

But that's just a made up name.

It's like calling a Motet a Mote

StrawberryTeaLeaf · 16/10/2015 22:38

How about Calista?

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Darkbehindthecurtain · 16/10/2015 22:38

Maddie?

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Only1scoop · 16/10/2015 22:37

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

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.

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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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reuset · 16/10/2015 22:29

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

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.

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

Cerseirys · 16/10/2015 22:28

Isn't a madrigal a musical instrument?

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Darkbehindthecurtain · 16/10/2015 22:26

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

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RJnomaaaaaargh · 16/10/2015 22:25

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