Dalloway
English usage is all I know. I've just started reading Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, and everything I google about the name comes back with book references. Can anyone elaborate on the name itself, though?

Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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It's locative, denoting a way, or path, through a dale, or valley.
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Ah, thank you. How appropriate for the character . . . :)
Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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