Colman
Proper noun
Meaning
A male given name from Irish.
A surname originating as a patronymic.
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A child was killed amid the ghostly splendour of Dorset’s Jurassic Coast and as detectives Hardy (Colman) and Miller (Tennant) investigated, they uncovered buried secrets and evil lurking behind the seaside bliss.
Etymology The term blues may have come from "blue devils", meaning melancholy and sadness; an early use of the term in this sense is in George Colman 's one-act farce Blue Devils (1798).
Colman departed his see for Iona and Lindisfarne ceased to be of such major importance.
Eventually, Northumbria was persuaded to move to the Roman practice and the Celtic Bishop Colman of Lindisfarne returned to Iona.
Its alumni include the likes of Monty Python, Miriam Margolyes, Sue Perkins and Olivia Colman, but it’s the 1981 line-up that stands out: Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Tony Slattery, Emma Thompson, Penny Dwyer and Paul Shearer.
Colman gives us Elizabeth in midlife, a sensible woman in her 50s who had lived through World War II and social revolutions and considered the weight of her obligations more important than children whining about not being loved enough.