Housatonic

[ hoo-suh-ton-ik ]

/ ˌhu səˈtɒn ɪk /

noun

a river flowing S from NW Massachusetts through SW Connecticut to Long Island Sound near Stratford, Connecticut. 148 miles (240 km) long.

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decorum

the act of or need for making up one's mind.

dignified propriety of behavior, speech, dress, etc.

a company of singers, especially an organized group employed in church service.

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Example sentences from the Web for housatonic

He declined both, to become in 1750 pastor of the church in Stockbridge and a missionary to the Housatonic Indians.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1|Various
At eleven he began a novel, the scene of which was laid in the Housatonic Valley, because that name sounded grand and romantic.
Children's Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860|Henrietta Christian Wright
Between 1720 and the middle of the century, settlement crept up the Housatonic and its lateral valley into the Berkshires.
The Frontier in American History|Frederick Jackson Turner
Principal river valleys: Thames, Connecticut and Housatonic.
Alden's Handy Atlas of the World|John B. Alden

Neither of us had ever seen the Housatonic, but it sounded grand and romantic.
Memoir of John Lothrop Motley, Complete|Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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