Congreve
Americannoun
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William, 1670–1729, English dramatist.
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Sir William, 1772–1828, English engineer and inventor.
noun
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They are "tuneable", says Dr Congreve, to your desired colour and could even be mixed into a solution and then painted onto surfaces as light-emitting layers.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2023
Any woman of a certain age in anything by Shakespeare, Dickens, Congreve, Dryden or Sheridan.
From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2021
The Restoration saw Britain’s first-ever professional actresses, and both Otway and Congreve helped them shine.
From The Guardian ● May 21, 2019
“It’s got that same kind of cruelty,” says Rebeck, who looked at an obscure 17th-century suggestion Rickman made before settling on the Congreve staple.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2018
Of Restoration tragedies, Banks's "Unhappy Favorite" and Lee's "Rival Queens" were perhaps the most popular, and other plays of Banks, Lee, Otway, Dryden, Congreve, and Southerne were acted yearly.
From Tragedy by Ashley H. Thorndike
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