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hearth
hearth and home
(literary) your family and home His first loyalties are to hearth and home.
cricket on the hearth
A symbol of good luck and health. A cricket on the hearth has been a sign of household luck for millennia and in many cultures. Crickets were widely considered to bring good fortune as well as a kind of companionship. Representations of a cricket have long been included as a fireplace decoration. The expression “to find a cricket on the hearth is the luckiest thing of all” comes from Charles Dickens's novella, Cricket on the Hearth.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Clarissa | | klə-RIS-ə (English) | English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish |
Martyn | | - | Welsh, Ukrainian |
Hester | | HES-tər (English) | English, Biblical Latin |
Doirend | | - | Irish Mythology |
Gwillym | | - | Welsh |
Ove | | - | Swedish, Norwegian, Danish |