Sassoon
Americannoun
noun
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Siegfried ( Lorraine ). 1886–1967, British poet and novelist, best known for his poems of the horrors of war collected in Counterattack (1918) and Satirical Poems (1926). He also wrote a semi-fictitious autobiographical trilogy The Memoirs of George Sherston (1928–36)
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Vidal. 1928–2012, British hair stylist: founder and chairman of Vidal Sassoon Inc
Example Sentences
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"It is almost impossible to identify where parts sold with forged certificates came from", explained Harriet Sassoon, case controller at the SFO.
From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026
But Manhattan's former top prosecutor, Danielle Sassoon, refused to do so.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2025
“I understand my duty as a prosecutor to mean enforcing the law impartially,” wrote Sassoon, a former law clerk for a conservative icon, the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2025
The most blistering send-off came from Hagan Scotten, an assistant U.S. attorney working under Sassoon in the Southern District of New York.
From Slate • Feb. 15, 2025
Sophie Sassoon wasn’t around to wax my mustache, so it began to fill in, a smudge above my upper lip.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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