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Gillette   /dʒɪlˈɛt/   Listen
Gillette

noun
1.
United States inventor and manufacturer who developed the safety razor (1855-1932).  Synonym: King Camp Gilette.






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"Gillette" Quotes from Famous Books



... Gillette, who has been acting for over forty years, always smokes cigars in the parts he plays is because he is very nervous when ...
— The American Credo - A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind • George Jean Nathan

... "Immigrant Rural Communities"; Carver, "Changes in Country Population"; Coulter, "Agricultural Laborers"; Davenport, "Scientific Farming"; Dixon, "Rural Home"; Eyerly, "Cooeperative Movements among Farmers"; Foght, "The Country School"; Gillette, "Conditions and Needs of Country Life"; Gray, "Southern Agriculture"; Hartman, "Village Problems"; Hamilton, "Agricultural Fairs"; Henderson, "Rural Police"; Hibbard, "Farm Tendency"; Kates, "Rural Conferences"; ...
— Rural Life and the Rural School • Joseph Kennedy

... Rev. Mrs. GILLETTE, of Rochester, Mich., said every woman as well as every man should speak for what she believes to be necessary for her own well-being and for the well-being of the community. Charles Sumner once said that a woman's reason was the reason of the heart. ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage

... sprang suddenly into being. A morning paper announced that Schmitz had handed the reins of the city over to a septette of prominent citizens. Governor Gillette lauded this action. But Rudolph Spreckels disowned the Committee. Langdon and Heney were suspicious of its purpose. So the Committee ...
— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman

... which it lies about forty miles to the westward. The northern half of these mountains is known as the Black Range, and was the center of considerable mining excitement a year and a half ago. It is there that the Ivanhoe is located, of which Colonel Gillette was manager, and in which Robert Ingersoll and Senator Plumb, of Kansas, were interested, much to the disadvantage of the former. A new company has been organized, however, with Colonel Ingersoll as president, and the reopening of work on the Ivanhoe will ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 360, November 25, 1882 • Various



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