Dorcas

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Dorcas is a female name of Greek origins, (in Aramaic - Tabitha), which means gazelle. There is a type of gazelle called the dorcas gazelle. The biblical meaning is 'good woman', as the name appears in Acts 9:36-42. Dorcas was a disciple of Joppa found in the book of Acts. She was a dressmaker, who made clothes for the poor in her village. When she died, the people of the village called Saint Peter, also called Simon, of Galilee, who raised her from the dead.

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Dorcas (nome) is also a character in the Bromeliad Series by Terry Pratchet.

The maid in the Poirot adventure "The Mysterious Affair At Styles" is also named Dorcas.

Dorcas is a character in Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun.