Sackville

[sak-vil]

noun

Thomas, 1st Earl of Dorset,1536–1608, English statesman and poet.

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Historical Examples of sackville

When he had breakfasted, he left the Club and walked towards Sackville Street.
Changing Winds
St. John G. Ervine
The rain was drizzling as we made our way into Sackville Street.
Six days of the Irish Republic
Louis Redmond-Howard
Sackville was astonished and not much pleased by the message.
The History of England from the Accession of James II.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
With these fine principles I found Sackville Maine impressed.
The Book of Snobs
William Makepeace Thackeray
That's Mrs. Sackville Maine, and that was her husband who just went away.
The Book of Snobs
William Makepeace Thackeray

British Dictionary definitions for sackville

Sackville

noun

Thomas, 1st Earl of Dorset. 1536–1608, English poet, dramatist, and statesman. He collaborated with Thomas Norton on the early blank-verse tragedy Gorboduc (1561)

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