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Palgrave

American  
[pawl-greyv, pal-] / ˈpɔl greɪv, ˈpæl- /

noun

  1. Francis Turner, 1824–97, English critic, poet, and anthologist.


Palgrave British  
/ ˈpɔːlɡreɪv, ˈpæl- /

noun

  1. Francis Turner. 1824–97, British critic and poet, editor of the poetry anthology The Golden Treasury (1861)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The ICC petition was filed by Palgrave Boakye-Danquah, a former Ghanaian government spokesperson ‌on governance ⁠and security, and Emmanuel Kotin, a counter-terrorism and security analyst.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

Copyright © 2013 by the author and reprinted by permission of Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

From Slate Nov. 7, 2013

Mark Broughton, the author of a history of the show to be published this year by the British Film Institute and Palgrave Macmillan, thinks so.

From New York Times Dec. 30, 2011

“Everyone will be dragged kicking and screaming from here,” said Airie Stuart, publisher of Palgrave, an imprint of Macmillan Publishers.

From New York Times May 25, 2010

The eldest son of Sir Francis Palgrave, he was born at Great Yarmouth in 1824, and was educated at the Charterhouse and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a scholar. 

From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Charles Mackie

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