Definition of "Chloe"

For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1 Corinthians 1:11

Of Chloe all the town has rung; / By ev'ry Size of Poets sung. / So beautiful a Nymph appears / But once in Twenty Thousand Years.

1731, Jonathan Swift, Strephon and Chloe

Before he had met this one, Morgan had assumed that people called Chloe were either the neurotic brilliant daughters of Oxbridge dons or else silly screaming debutantes.

1981, William Boyd, A Good Man in Africa, H.Hamilton, page 24