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Gustavus

American  
[guh-stey-vuhs, -stah-] / gʌˈsteɪ vəs, -ˈstɑ- /

noun

  1. a male given name, Latinized form of Gustave.


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Roy Owen Haynes was born March 13, 1925 in Roxbury, Mass. His parents, Gustavus and Edna Haynes, had moved to the area from Barbados.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2024

Episodes like these occur too regularly, said Jon Grinnell, associate professor of biology and a bison expert at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota.

From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2024

Officials in Gustavus have been among those asking the department to activate the idle Tazlina ferry.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 19, 2022

Fewer ships were heard, says Christine Gabrielle from Glacier Bay National Park in Gustavus, and the way humpback whales behaved changed.

From BBC • Aug. 5, 2021

Gustavus Swift boasted about the clever use of animal byproducts: “Now we use all of the hog except his grunt.”

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

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