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Hepburn

[ hep-burn ]

noun

  1. Audrey, 1929–93, U.S. actress, born in Belgium.
  2. Katharine, 1909–2003, U.S. actress.


Hepburn

/ ˈhɛpˌbɜːn /

noun

  1. HepburnAudrey19291993FUSBelgianFILMS AND TV: actress Audrey. 1929–93, US actress, born in Belgium. Her films include Roman Holiday (1955), Funny Face (1957), and My Fair Lady (1964)
  2. HepburnKatharine19072003FUSFILMS AND TV: actress Katharine. 1907–2003, US film actress, whose films include The Philadelphia Story (1940), Adam's Rib (1949), The African Queen (1951), The Lion in Winter (1968) for which she won an Oscar, and On Golden Pond (1981)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

The Department for Culture Media and Sport bought the folders from luxury leather goods manufacturer Barrow Hepburn & Gale, at a cost of £594 each.

From BBC

The actor won a supporting actor Golden Globe for “The Rainmaker” in 1956, starring opposite Katharine Hepburn and Burt Lancaster.

As Katharine Hepburn said in the movie, he was kind of puritanical, because those where the times back then.

From Salon

For Halloween, Elsbeth spends the entirety of “Devil’s Night” trying to prove a former child star is innocent of murder, all while dressed as Audrey Hepburn’s character in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”

But as the authors show in this 240-page book, women like Louise Brooks, Ida Lupino and Katharine Hepburn blew through the celluloid ceiling and lifted up generations of women in the movies.

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