Percy

[pur-see]

noun

1. Sir Henry Hotspur, 1364–1403, English military and rebel leader.

2. Thomas, 1729–1811, English poet and antiquary: bishop of Dromore 1782–1811.

3. Walker, 1916–90, U.S. essayist and novelist.

4. a male given name, form of Percival.

Percy

/ ˈpɜːsɪ /

noun

1. Sir Henry, known as Harry Hotspur. 1364–1403, English rebel, who was killed leading an army against Henry IV

2. Thomas. 1729–1811, English bishop and antiquary. His Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765) stimulated the interest of Romantic writers in old English and Scottish ballads

Example Sentences

Then, on May 5, 1971, diver Percy Ackland made the most exciting discovery of all when he found a number of wooden frames that were unmistakably part of the Mary Rose’s hull.

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Percy’s Bar was third and Meaning, for Michael McCarthy, finished fourth.

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The daughter of political radicals Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, she'd enjoyed an unconventional childhood by the standards of the times, leading to an early marriage to the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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Rothbury Estate was owned by the Duke of Northumberland's youngest son, Lord Max Percy, and had been in the family for about 700 years.

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She thanks him for a favorable review, and reveals that she—and not her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley—had written “Frankenstein.”

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