Flo
August 29, 2014 § 1 Comment
ORIGIN:
Shortened version of “Florence” or “Flora”.
VARIATIONS and NICKNAMES:
Fflur, Fiorenza, Fleur, Floor, Flora, Flore, Floreen, Floella, Florence, Florene, Florentia, Floretta, Florette, Floris, Florrie, Flossie, etc.
REFERENCES IN LITERATURE:
– Flo (Florence) Aplin, a snobbish, bragging girl from a snobbish, bragging family, in “Esther Bodn”, from Nora Perry’s A Flock of Girls and Boys (1895).
The Art of Literary Nomenclature 
[…] IN LITERATURE: – Florence Aplin (called “Flo“), a snobbish, bragging girl from a snobbish, bragging family, in “Esther Bodn”, […]
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