- a variation of Suwannee.
Swanee
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Laguna was the champion and he thought I'd go down the Swanee dead easy with the heat and everything.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2023
“My friend Jeanna of Swanee Grace runs a vintage studio out of her home in Staten Island. You can have a glass of wine and talk about clothes all evening long.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2021
More typical are heirs such as Swanee and Helen Hunt, who rejected the conservativism of their father, HL Hunt, who was among the richest men in America.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 25, 2017
“I’ve traveled in 60 countries, and she is really seen as the hope for women worldwide,” says philanthropist, former ambassador to Austria and longtime Hillary supporter Swanee Hunt.
From Newsweek ● Mar. 10, 2015
All over the auditorium the Union Jack and Stars and Stripes enfolded one another, and at the interludes were heard "Yankee Doodle" and "Hail Columbia," while a quartette sang "Down upon the Swanee River."
From Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations by Fanning, C. E. (Clara Elizabeth)
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