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Gustavus

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

noun

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


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The previous sale record for a Carriera painting was £421,250, for a portrait of Irish soldier and politician Gustavus Hamilton sold in New York in 2002, Cheffins said.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2025

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

The Defender’s founder, Robert Abbott, had been born in the South, and like the Barnetts and Gustavus Swift, he recognized Chicago as a place where he could do big things.

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

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