Pearl

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Submitted Name

Type Surname (from occupation)
Usage English
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Meaning & History

Metonymic occupational name for a trader in pearls, which in the Middle Ages were fashionable among the rich for the ornamentation of clothes, from Middle English, Old French perle (Late Latin perla).