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It is a Dutch word that is mainly used in legal or genealogical contexts, usually to indicate someone's maiden name. For example, "Marie Jones, née Smith."
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nee
adjective
Used when giving the maiden name of a woman.
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He was the son of Walter Fielden, a painter and decorator, and Florence (nee Thomas), who worked at the mill in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, until her death from asthma when Roy was 17.
As Burt Lancaster says to her in I Walk Alone (1948), "What a fall guy I am – thinking just because you're good to look at, you'd be good all the way through!" She was born Emma Matzo, the daughter of John Matzo and his wife Mary (nee Pennock) in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
A native of Chicago, Sackett was the son of Margaret (nee Ross) and DeForest, a designer and artist.
The actor was born in the Randwick suburb of Sydney to Edward Hornery, a sales rep, and his wife, Veronica (nee Gallen).
Anton was the second of the six children of Margaret (nee More), a composer, and Raymond Bantock, an educationist.
Born in London, son of Rachel (nee Muscovitch) and Alfred Olins, he was educated at Highgate school and St Peter's College, Oxford.
She was born in Santa Monica, California, to George Temple, a bank employee, and his wife, Gertrude (nee Krieger), who saw nascent talent in her three-year-old daughter.
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(My mother remembers one of them: "This is / The sympho-nee / That Schubert wrote but never fi-nished... ") NBC would broadcast Ohio State vs. Indiana one afternoon, a recital by Lotte Lehmann the next.
Results of his observations appeared in The League of the Ho-dé-no-sau-nee, or Iroquois (1851).
Miller promptly switched on the flashing lights and the pulse-quickening Nee-Naw, and executed an impressively neat U-turn as suddenly the Highway Code became redundant to us.
The legendary Abominable Snowman, or yeti, called Nee-gued in Sikkim, is believed to roam its slopes.
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