La Farge
Americannoun
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John, 1835–1910, U.S. painter, stained-glass designer, and writer.
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Oliver Hazard Perry Oliver II, 1901–63, U.S. novelist and anthropologist.
Example Sentences
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Mr. La Farge presented it as his translation of a minor French poet, Paul Poissel, whom he had invented out of whole cloth.
From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2023
“You wouldn’t assume that anything buried for hundreds of years would be viable,” said La Farge, who researches mosses at the University of Alberta.
From Washington Post • Jul. 5, 2019
William Trost Richards is a specialty as is the stained-glass artist and painter John La Farge.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 17, 2018
La Farge prefers the print edition: “Of course you can look words up online. But how will you stumble on the ones you don’t know you don’t know: ug, or apocalypst, or catoptromancy?”
From Slate • Jun. 7, 2018
To judge by his present expression, this was a very deep-seated one, amounting, you might say, to a constitutional infirmity with La Farge.
From The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
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