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Gibbons
[ gib-uhnz ]
noun
- Grin·ling [grin, -ling], 1648–1720, English woodcarver and sculptor, born in the Netherlands.
- Orlando, 1583–1625, English composer.
Gibbons
/ ˈɡɪbənz /
noun
- GibbonsGrinling16481721MEnglishARTS AND CRAFTS: sculptorARTS AND CRAFTS: woodcarver Grinling. 1648–1721, English sculptor and woodcarver, noted for his delicate carvings of fruit, flowers, birds, etc
- GibbonsOrlando15831625MEnglishMUSIC: organistMUSIC: composer Orlando. 1583–1625, English organist and composer, esp of anthems, motets, and madrigals
Example Sentences
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons This novel won the literary Prix Femina Étranger.
(Gibbons says “we are unaware of any such activity by the FBI”).
Surely Gibbons and Krolicki have already gamed this scenario.
The odds in Las Vegas should be on Gibbons appointing Gibbons.
Although his money has dried up and his poll numbers are in a tailspin, Gibbons insists he is running for reelection next year.
The same peculiarity exists in the larger anthropoid apes and in some of the gibbons, but is not found in the lower mammals.
She sat down at the spinet and played a little madrigal by Orlando Gibbons that was associated with her earliest childhood.
Nearly all Grinling Gibbons' delicate carving is in Lime wood.
My dear Mrs. Gibbons, surely you read the papers and you see what awful things the Germans are doing in Belgium.
The last stronghold carried was Fort Gregg, at which the men of Gibbons corps had one of the most desperate struggles of the war.
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