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Bianca

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | | Copyright

Bianca ♀ Italian: from bianca ‘white’ (i.e. ‘pure’, but see also Blanche). The name was used by Shakespeare for characters in two of his plays set in an Italian context: the mild-mannered sister of Katharina, the ‘shrew’ in The Taming of the Shrew, and a courtesan in Othello. It came to prominence in the 1970s as the name of Bianca Jagger, the Nicaraguan fashion model, peace worker, and diplomat, who was for a time married to the rock singer Mick Jagger. Since then it has been used increasingly in the English-speaking world.
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Bianca

A Dictionary of Astronomy | 1997 | Copyright

Bianca The third-closest satellite of Uranus, distance 59 170 km, orbital period 0.435 days; also known as Uranus VIII. Bianca is 42 km in diameter and was discovered in 1986 on images taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
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Bianca

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Copyright

Bianca,
1. sister of Katharina, in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew;

2. mistress of Cassio, in his Othello.
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A Dictionary of Earth Sciences | 1999 | | Copyright

Bianca (Uranus VIII) One of the lesser satellites of Uranus, with a diameter of 22 km. It was discovered in 1986.
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A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | | Copyright

Bianca ♀ (Italian) From the vocabulary word bianca ‘white’ (i.e. pure). See Blanche.
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The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

Bianca in astronomy, one of the natural satellites, or moons, of Uranus .

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music | 1996 | | Copyright

bianca (It.). White. Half-note or minim.
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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

Bianca •alpaca, attacker, backer, clacker, claqueur, cracker, Dhaka, hacker, Hakka, knacker, lacquer, maraca, paca, packer, sifaka, slacker, smacker, stacker, tacker, tracker, whacker, yakka •Kafka •anchor, banker, Bianca, canker, Casablanca, Costa Blanca, flanker, franker, hanker, lingua franca, Lubyanka, rancour (US rancor), ranker, Salamanca, spanker, Sri Lanka, tanka, tanker, up-anchor, wanker •Alaska, lascar, Madagascar, Nebraska •Kamchatka • linebacker • outbacker •hijacker, skyjacker •Schumacher • backpacker •safecracker • wisecracker •nutcracker • firecracker • ransacker •scrimshanker • bushwhacker •barker, haka, Kabaka, Lusaka, marker, moussaka, nosy parker, Oaxaca, Osaka, parka, Shaka, Zarqa •asker, masker •backmarker • waymarker •Becker, checker, Cheka, chequer, Dekker, exchequer, Flecker, mecca, Neckar, Necker, pecker, Quebecker, Rebecca, Rijeka, trekker, weka, wrecker •sepulchre (US sepulcher) • Cuenca •burlesquer, Francesca, Wesker •woodpecker

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