Sackville

[ sak-vil ]

/ ˈsæk vɪl /

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noun

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

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Sackville

/ (ˈsækvɪl) /

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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