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Sabine

Meaning — Sabine is a French feminine given name from the Latin Sabina, meaning "Sabine woman" — referring to the Sabine people of central Italy, one of Rome's oldest neighboring peoples. The Sabine women became famous through the legend of the Rape of the Sabine Women, when Rome's founders abducted Sabine women to populate the new city. Several early Christian martyrs named Sabina gave the name ecclesiastical prestige in France and Italy.·French origin·Female·sa-BEEN

Sabine Sabine carries the ancient Roman heritage of one of Italy's oldest peoples alongside the French Catholic tradition — a name of quiet classical dignity that projects intelligence and self-possession. In contemporary French fiction, characters named Sabine tend to be women of culture and independent spirit who carry their history lightly but definitively, suited to stories of intellectual French women, historical novels of Roman antiquity, and contemporary literary fiction.

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Historical FictionLiterary FictionRomanceContemporary Fiction

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SabineSabinaSavine

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Sabine MoreauSabine DupontSabine RenardSabine FontaineSabine LaurentSabine Bernard

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