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Macy

[ mey-see ]

noun

  1. R(ow·land) H(us·sey) [roh, -l, uh, nd , huhs, -ee], 1823–77, U.S. retail merchant.


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Example Sentences

William H. Macy should be recognized for his ridiculous (and ridiculously good) performance on Shameless.

He even wrote a check for $300,000 so a local high school's marching band could travel to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

And the Macy's parade floats get an (imaginary) fashionable makeover.

Macy Gray is my grandmother, my mother, my cousins, and my aunt.

Then, of course, we can hear the buttons popping from Newt Gingrich's shirt as his ego swells to Macy's parade size.

Provost General Macy, of Massachusetts, established a guard to prevent depredations and to save the army from demoralization.

Mrs. Macy says Mrs. Lupey is so wore out she can't talk of nothin' else.

"If you've got a drag with old Macy, maybe he'll raise you," was Charley's disheartening reply.

Charles shook his head sceptically and Mr. Macy's answer next day was equally unsatisfactory.

It had to do somehow with Mr. Macy and Charley Moore—the attitudes, the methods of each of them.

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