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Vachel

American  
[vey-chuhl] / ˈveɪ tʃəl /

noun

  1. a male given name: from a Latin word meaning “little cow.”


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My father, a true son of Sangamon County, would despair to know his own boy, with whom he strolled the grounds of Lincoln’s tomb trading lines from Vachel Lindsay, would make such a sloppy error.

From Fox News Feb. 13, 2019

Hiram College is home to the Lindsay-Crane Center for Writing and Literature, which is named for two poets, Vachel Lindsay and Hart Crane.

From The New Yorker Feb. 2, 2017

Even dedicated readers of poetry in our own time can be divided into two groups: those who know Vachel Lindsay and his work, and those who don’t.

From Slate Dec. 27, 2011

Canadian-born Superintendent Vachel of the CID is called in to investigate.

From The Guardian Jun. 30, 2010

She lives, believed the poet Vachel Lindsay, in the waving corn, and in her spiritual descendants, the American people.

From The Pocahontas-John Smith Story by Edmunds, Pocahontas Wight

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