a town in SE North Carolina.
a male given name.
1860–65, named after Sir Henry Havelock (1795–1857), English general in India
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Being a little disappointed that she didn’t think I would also know—I didn’t—I asked her what a havelock was.
From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg
The knob of his stick and his legs shook together with passion, whilst the trunk, draped in the wings of the havelock, preserved his historic attitude of defiance.
From The Secret Agent a Simple Tale by Conrad, Joseph
Christmas eve, about six or seven, he would suddenly enter, snow covering his havelock, and draw her into his embrace with that demonstrative ardour peculiar to him.
From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann
I see him walking about Piccadilly in his green havelock almost every day.
From The Secret Agent a Simple Tale by Conrad, Joseph
He wore a havelock; he turned quickly into a gate.
From The Goose Man by Porterfield, Allen Wilson
After all these years, I still sometimes think about the day I hopped on the ferry to go to Havelock.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024
The three other plinths that surround Nelson’s Column feature George IV and two 19th Century military figures instrumental in Britain’s control of India, Charles James Napier and Henry Havelock.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2024
Inspired by the story of John Addington Symonds and Havelock Ellis, two British scholars of homosexuality in a deeply homophobic Victorian era, Crewe’s debut is by turns lusty, elegant and deeply informed by history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
Mr. Tyson badly strained his voice in 2006 at the Havelock Country Jamboree in Ontario, and a virus a year later caused further and irreversible damage.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2022
She told me that it was a cap that has a flap of cloth attached to cover the neck, named after Sir Henry Havelock, the man who invented it.
From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg
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