Douglas (LACMTA station)
WordNet
noun
(1) United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery; he engaged in a famous series of debates with Abraham Lincoln (1813-1861)
WiktionaryText
Proper noun
- transferred from the surname.
- The capital of the Isle of Man.
Quotations
: Act IV, Scene V:-
- The noble Scot, Lord Douglas, when he saw
- The fortune of the day quite turn'd from him
- The noble Percy slain, and all his men
- Upon the foot of fear, fled with the rest.
- 1756 John Home, Douglas: A Tragedy, Prologue
- Douglas, a name through all the world renown'd,
- A name that rouses like the trumpet's sound!
- 1960 Muriel Spark, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, New Directions Publishing, 1999, page 68-69
- 'Just call me Dougal,' said Dougal.
- 'Douglas,' she said, pronouncing it 'Dooglass'.
- 'No, Dougal - Douglas is my surname.'
- 'Oh, Dougal Douglas. Dougal's the first name.'