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Gender:

Girl

Origin:

Persian

Meaning:

Star

Pronunciation:

(HESS ter)   [Guide]

Form of:

Esther

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Hester Prynne was the adulterous heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter", a novel set in Puritan New England.

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