Tilley

/ ˈtɪlɪ /

noun

1. TilleyVesta18641952FBritishTHEATRE: music-hall entertainer Vesta (ˈvɛstə), original name Matilda Alice Powles. 1864–1952, British music-hall entertainer, best known as a male impersonator

Example Sentences

Mr. Elijah Tilley appeared to regard a stranger with scornful indifference.

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Mr. Tilley agreed, by a sober nod, and went his way bent-shouldered and with a rolling gait.

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Mr. Tilley was carrying a small haddock in one hand, and presently shifted it to the other hand lest it might touch my skirt.

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Turning, I found old Elijah Tilley, who had come softly out of his dark fish-house, as if it were a burrow.

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I regret I never saw Vesta Tilley, with whom the old tops compare her so favourably.

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