Kilvert
Britishnoun
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Among a fresh crop of boutiques: the three-level Lark Vintage, with its 20th-century couture and kitchen full of kitsch, and the atelier of the animal-loving artisan Mary Kilvert, who creates woolly sheep sculptures.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2014
In 1976, with a lawyer friend, John Kerry, who would become a senator from Massachusetts and the 2004 Democratic nominee for president, he founded Kilvert & Forbes, a cookie company.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2010
Copie of a Letter sent from the roaring Boyes in Elizium, to the two arrant Knights of the Grape in Limbo, Alderman Abel and M. Kilvert, the two projectors for wine; with their portraits.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
I put your letter away for some time till Mrs. Kilvert sent me upstairs for my gloves.
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. Hare
Mr. Kilvert was a good scholar, but in the dryest, hardest sense; of literature he knew nothing, and he was entirely without originality or cleverness, so that his knowledge was of the most untempting description.
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. Hare
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