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Filene

American  
[fi-leen, fahy-] / fɪˈlin, faɪ- /

noun

  1. Edward Albert, 1860–1937, U.S. retail merchant.


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But the Filene Center performance was a unique experience, she said.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 24, 2022

Of course, when the rain really rolls in — as it did on Thursday evening — the Filene Center just makes a better umbrella than your average umbrella.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 2, 2021

According to Mary Knowles, daughter of one of the original Filene Center architects Edward Knowles, musicians who played at the wood-clad venue in the early days raved about the acoustics.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2021

Wolf Trap’s beginnings tie back to philanthropist Catherine Filene Shouse, who in 1966 donated money and the land that would become Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts to the National Park Service.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2021

This is the Filene store in Boston, which has developed within the past ten years from a conservative, old-fashioned dry-goods business into an extremely original and interesting experiment station in commercial economics.

From What eight million women want by Rheta Childe Dorr

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