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)
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Proper noun



  1. transferred from the surname.
  2. 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.'
 
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