English
Etymology
OE. æsc, "ash tree" + leah, "wood" or "clearing".
Proper noun
en-proper noun
- A common English place name
- A surname derived from the places.
- given name|male transferred from the surname.
- given name|female used since the 1960s.
Quotations
1999 Andrew Pyper: Lost Girls: Chapter Ten:
:But when Krystal McConnell? and Ashley Flynn were named deep in the heart of the '80s the thing was cuteness, feminine delicacy raised to an aesthetic paradigm. --- And everyone named according to a particular version of the pedigree fantasy. Ashley : transplanted Southern privilege, a destiny lying in sorority mixers and a marriage of health club memberships, state-of-the-art appliances and night courses in nouvelle cuisine.
de:Ashley
sr:Ashley
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