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Etymology

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The surname is from Rimington, from Old English rima (edge, border) + -ing + -tun (literally settlement by the boundary stream).

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Remington

  1. An English habitational surname from Old English; (art) used specifically of Frederic Remington (1861–1909), an American artist who specialized in depictions of the Old West.
    • 2011 January 14, David Bromwich, “Howard Hawks, Hollywood's finest practitioner of everyday chivalry”, in The Guardian:
      One of his movies may suggest an inward unity and spaciousness that seems a mark of good fiction, as in The Big Sleep; it may have the scope and resonance to fill a historical landscape worthy of Remington, as Red River does.
    • 2008, Erik D. Stoops, Serpentauria, page 19:
      Rafe loved Remington. He so typified the old West.
    • 2000, William Blackmon, The Tribulation Cycle, iUniverse, page 231:
      In jeans, a long sleeved canvas shirt and boots, Young gave the appearance of a living Remington painting as he listened quietly to Jenkins' rendition of the story.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
  3. A town in Indiana; named for the founder of the town's general store.
  4. A neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland; named for early landowner William Remington.
  5. A town in Virginia.
  6. A hamlet in Ohio.
  7. A town in Wisconsin.

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Remington (plural Remingtons)

  1. A gun produced by the American manufacturer Remington Arms.
  2. A kind of typewriter.

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