Gillette
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Etymology edit
Alternative form of Gillett
- Razor brand: invented by American businessman King C. Gillette.
Proper noun edit
Gillette (countable and uncountable, plural Gillettes)
- A surname, variant of Gillett.
- A placename
- A ghost town in Teller County, Colorado, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Manatee County, Florida, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Morris County, New Jersey, United States.
- A city, the county seat of Campbell County, Wyoming, United States.
- 1979, United States Department of Commerce, “Jobs Through Economic Development”, in Boomtown Problems:
- In those 18 years, Gillette, a small town in northeastern Wyoming, has changed from a group of houses and a railroad depot servicing a ranching and farming community to a mining boomtown, growing at a rate of 15 to 20 percent a year.
- 2011, Anne Marie Chaker, “Should Junk Food Be Sold In Schools?”, in School Diet and Exercise Programs May Go Too Far, pages 70–1:
- 2014, Monica Moses, “American Craft”, in Creative Outliers, page 6:
- By one estimate, there are as many full-time craft artists in the United States as there are people in the town of Gillette, Wyoming. Never heard of Gillette? Well, no wonder; like the universe of craft artists, it has a relatively small population.
- A brand of razor blade
- 2005, Dan Gerber, A Voice from the River, page 22:
- In the men's room he watched a man about his own age pathetically trying to shave a five-day beard with a rusty Gillette razor he had probably found in a trash bin.
Quotations edit
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:Gillette.
Descendants edit
- → Czech: žiletka
- → Ewe: žilett
- → Indonesian: silet
- → Ternate: silet
- → Polish: żyletka
- → Portuguese: gilete
- → Turkish: jilet
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Gillette ?
- a surname