The Art of Literary Nomenclature

ORIGIN:
An English place name, meaning “town belonging to Wassa (the intelligent one)’s people”.

VARIATIONS and NICKNAMES:
Wash, I suppose?

REFERENCES IN LITERATURE:
– Mrs. Washington White is a friend of Becky’s who must be cut after the clever little adventuress is presented at court, in Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray (published in 1847-48, but set in the 1810s-20s).

Tagged: 1810s, 1820s, 1840s, English, W