proper noun/mad.lɛn/
a female given name, equivalent to English Madeline or Magdalene
“— M. Léon, disait le pharmacien, avec qui j’en causais l’autre jour, s’étonne que vous ne choisissiez point Madeleine, qui est excessivement à la mode maintenant. Mais la mère Bovary se récria bien fort sur ce nom de pécheresse.” — "Monsieur Leon," said the chemist, "with whom I was talking about it the other day, wonders you do not chose Madeleine. It is very much in fashion just now." But Madame Bovary, senior, cried out loudly against this name of a sinner.
Inherited from Latin Magdalēna. Doublet of Magdaléna.