Culpeper

American

[kuhl-pep-er] / ˈkʌlˌpɛp ər /

noun

Thomas 2nd Baron Culpeper of Thoresway, 1635–89, English colonial governor of Virginia 1680–83.

Culpeper British

/ ˈkʌlpɛpə /

noun

Nicholas. 1616–54, English herbalist and astrologer; his unauthorized translation (1649) of the College of Physicians' Pharmacopoeia and his Herbal (1653) popularized herbalism

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Lucas has a legal guardian in Ben Rodriguez-Cubeñas, program director for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund’s Culpeper Arts & Culture program.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Then last summer, McFarland drove from his home in the northern state of Michigan to the US Library of Congress’ National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper in the southern state of Virginia.

From Barron's ● Apr. 13, 2026

Jenkins was elected sheriff of Culpeper County in 2011 and took office in January 2012.

From BBC ● May 27, 2025

The field includes four current and former elected officials from Prince William County, a northern Virginia suburb constituting more than a third of the district stretching south past Fredericksburg and west past Culpeper.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

She was in Culpeper, Virginia, washing clothes in a hotel, when she learned that there was a colony of Negro farmers on an island off the coast of Virginia.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

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