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Swanee

British  
/ ˈswɒnɪ /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of Suwannee

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

Then silence fell, and softly and sweetly over that silence, floated the tender, pathetic words of "Way down upon the Swanee River."

From A Terrible Secret by Fleming, May Agnes

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