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Bailey

noun

United States singer (1918-1990). Synonyms: Pearl Bailey, Pearl Mae Bailey.

English lexicographer who was the first to treat etymology consistently; his work was used as a reference by Samuel Johnson (died in 1742). Synonyms: Nathan Bailey, Nathaniel Bailey.

The outer courtyard of a castle.

The outer defensive wall that surrounds the outer courtyard of a castle.

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"Bailey" Quotes from Famous Books

... excellent little book of Mr. Bailey Saunders, called The Maxims and Reflections ...

— The Map of Life - Conduct and Character • William Edward Hartpole Lecky

... isn't a very pleasant neighbor, and I have to keep little Tommy in the house all the time for fear the brute will seize him. Then, beside that, the bear has carried off some of Mr. Bailey's (that's the man my husband works for) pigs, and has so frightened his family that Mr. Bailey said he would give us twenty dollars for the hide of every ...

— Through Forest and Fire - Wild-Woods Series No. 1 • Edward Ellis

... Steele, and a lot of other people of that sort used to go to drink and smoke before they was buried in Westminster Abbey, and where Charles and Mary Lamb lived afterward, and where Mary used to look out of the window to see the constables take the thieves to the Old Bailey near by. Then we went to Tom-all-alone's, and saw the very grating at the head of the steps which led to the old graveyard where poor Joe used to sweep the steps when Lady Dedlock came there, and I held on to the very bars that the poor lady must have gripped when ...

— Pomona's Travels - A Series of Letters to the Mistress of Rudder Grange from her Former - Handmaiden • Frank R. Stockton

... have, Mr. Hipps. The matter is of no great importance but I dreamt of the Old Bailey among other things and of three gentlemen, prominent in financial circles, who were charged with unlawfully detaining someone against his will and endeavouring to induce him ...

— Men of Affairs • Roland Pertwee

... novel Mr. H. C. Bailey, who is best known by his spirited historical romances, has deserted the past for the present. He tells a story of modern London. The scenes are laid in poor middle-class life, in the worlds of journalism ...

— Werwolves • Elliott O'Donnell

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