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Isidor
[iz-i-dawr, -dohr]
noun
a male given name.
Example Sentences
But Migne's recruitment drive is not over, with the chance to play in the World Cup a potential draw for players such as Sunderland's Wilson Isidor or former Crystal Palace forward Odsonne Edouard.
Isidor Straus and his wife Ida were among the more than 1,500 people who died when the vessel travelling from Southampton to New York sank after hitting an iceberg on 14 April 1912.
Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge, of Henry Aldridge & Son in Wiltshire, told BBC Radio Wiltshire: "With the watch, we are retelling Isidor's story. It's a phenomenal piece of memorabilia."
"Everyone would know them from the end of James Cameron's Titanic movie, when there is an elderly couple hugging as the ship is sinking - that's Isidor and Ida."
It was returned to his family and was passed down through generations before Kenneth Hollister Straus, Isidor's great-grandson, had the movement repaired and restored.
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