Meaning

noun Swedish soprano who toured the United States under the management of P. T. Barnum (1820-1887)

originFrom Middle English lind, linde, from Old English lind, from Proto-West Germanic *lindu, from Proto-Germanic *lindō. Cognate with Dutch linde, German Linde, Swedish lind. Cognate to Albanian lëndë (“wood, timber, material”).

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