Norma.

A vestal priestess who has been seduced. She discovers her paramour in an attempt to seduce her friend, also a vestal priestess, and in despair contemplates the murder of her baseborn children. The libretto is a melodrama by Romani, music by Belliʹni (1831.) (Norma, an opera.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Non Sequitur (A)
Nonce
Nonconformists
Nones
Nonjurors
Nonne Prestes Tale
Nor
Norfolk
Norfolk-Howards
Norfolk Street (Strand)
Norma
Normandy
Norna
Norna of the Fitful Head
Nornir or Norns
Norrisian Professor
Norroy
Norte
North (Christopher)
North
North-east Passage (The)