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Gosse

American  
[gaws, gos] / gɔs, gɒs /

noun

  1. Sir Edmund William, 1849–1928, English poet, biographer, and critic.


Gosse British  
/ ɡɒs /

noun

  1. Sir Edmund William. 1849–1928, English critic and poet, noted particularly for his autobiographical work Father and Son (1907)

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The British author Edmund Gosse once defined a biography as “the faithful portrait of a soul in its adventures through life.”

From Seattle Times Mar. 31, 2021

"She put herself in front of one of her friends, took the bullet, and then died in her arms with the imam saying a prayer over her," Mr Gosse tells the BBC.

From BBC Mar. 21, 2019

Gosse said the loss of a woman with a “huge heart” came only a month after her mother’s death.

From Washington Times Mar. 21, 2019

“Linda had a huge heart and what little she had, she was more than happy to share with her family and Muslim community,” Mr. Gosse wrote in a tribute to his aunt on Facebook.

From New York Times Mar. 19, 2019

Dear Mrs. Gosse, Many thanks for your better news—and especially for the good news that Gosse is coming to Paris.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry

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