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Edeltraud
Edeltraud Edeltraud is a distinctly Germanic name carrying old-fashioned aristocratic flavour — it belongs to the world of pre-war German bourgeois and noble families, with associations of formal propriety, dignified femininity, and the quiet strength of women who maintained household and family order through difficult decades. Characters named Edeltraud suit German family sagas spanning the late 19th through mid-20th centuries.
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