Definition of "Renée"

"You don't have to call me Reenie if you don't want," she said. "You can call me Renée if it suits you." Reenie, Julian remembered: sweep her hair high and call her Renée. "No," he answered finally, "I'll take things the way they are."

1950, Helen Rich, The Willow-Bender, Simon and Schuster, page 120