Shadwell
Americannoun
noun
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“They look almost like the fake spider web stuff that you buy at the Halloween store. It was very silky and sticky,” Bay Area resident Brook Shadwell told the San Francisco Chronicle.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
Crews from Shadwell, Dowgate, Dockhead, Shoreditch and surrounding fire stations are at the scene.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2022
After inheriting his family's Shadwell estate, Jefferson began constructing a new brick mansion on the property he dubbed Monticello, which means "little mountain" in Italian.
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2022
Although an 8-year-old, the Britain-based gelding hasn’t lost his finishing kick as he demonstrated at Keeneland last month with a stout rally, missing by only three-quarters of a length in the Shadwell Mile.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2019
The third of ten children and the oldest boy, he was born on April 13, 1743, at Shadwell, the family plantation in Virginia’s Piedmont region.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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