Origin and history of Anne

are unclear; OED calls it "one of the numerous cant terms ... which arose between the Restoration and the reign of Queen Anne...

In English history, a group of leading Whigs in the reigns of William III and Queen Anne....

dialectal noun meaning "a woman's breast" ["...whose pritty duckys I trust shortly to kysse," Henry VIII, c. 1536 letter to Anne...

[Anne Brontë, "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall," 1848]...

[Anne Laura McGregor, "Supervised Study in English for Junior High School Grades," New York, 1921]...

innkeepers, hawkers, paupers, vagrants, criminals, and others,—and in no single instance, down to the end of the reign of Anne...

practical terms, "the improvement of society by regulated practical means;" by 1868, attributed to "George Eliot" (Mary Anne...

Old English mentel "a loose, sleeveless garment worn as an outer covering, falling in straight lines from the shoulders," from Latin mantellum "cloak" (source of Italian mantello, Old High German mantal, German Mantel, Old Norse mötull), perhaps from a Celtic source, or, if the L

c. 1200, "physical comfort, undisturbed state of the body; tranquility, peace of mind," from Old French aise "comfort, pleasure, well-being; opportunity," which is of uncertain origin. According to Watkins is ultimately from Latin adiacens "lying at," present participle of adiace

early 15c., "servants of a household," from Latin familia "family servants, domestics collectively, the servants in a household," thus also "members of a household, the estate, property; the household, including relatives and servants," abstract noun formed from famulus "servant,