Jellicoe

American  

[jel-i-koh] / ˈdʒɛl ɪˌkoʊ /

noun

1. John Rushworth 1st Earl, 1859–1935, British admiral.

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Jellicoe British  

/ ˈdʒɛlɪˌkəʊ /

noun

1. John Rushworth, 1st Earl Jellicoe. 1859–1935, British admiral, who commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland (1916), which incapacitated the German fleet for the rest of World War I

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Jellicoe

Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe created the watercourse at the former Cadbury factory at Moreton in the 1950s.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2020

The memorial garden was designed by Britain's best-known post-war landscape architect, Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe, between 1964 and 1965.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2020

These are questions that Beatriz — like Amy Jellicoe, the self-help poster girl played by Laura Dern on “Enlightened” — takes incredibly seriously.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2017

Amy Jellicoe may not have had a huge audience, but as an archetype, her future is as bright as Tracy Flick’s—and that’s all because of Laura Dern.

From Slate ● Dec. 30, 2013

We were standing at the corner of Jellicoe Avenue and Oxford Road, right in the heart of Johannesburg’s wealthy, white suburbia, and there were no minibuses.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah