Wolseley

[woolz-lee]

noun

1. Garnet Joseph, 1st Viscount, 1833–1913, British field marshal.

Wolseley

/ ˈwʊlzlɪ /

noun

1. Garnet Joseph, 1st Viscount. 1833–1913, British field marshal, noted for his army reforms

Example Sentences

Buses will pick up at Wolseley Road, Saltash Road, and St Levan Road every 15 minutes, the council said.

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Troops led by Garnet Joseph Wolseley flattened the African royal city during the Third Anglo-Asante War, blowing up the palace and erasing everything in sight.

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Wolseley, a much-decorated soldier who was an advisor to Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest during the American Civil War, led the 1874 African assault; called the Sagrenti War, it was the third of five central Gold Coast wars designed to secure the mineral-rich territory for Queen Victoria.

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Jeremy King, one of London’s prominent restaurateurs, who until recently owned the Wolseley, Fischer’s and the Delaunay, said British restaurants also had to overcome a cultural bias in the country against jobs like waiting tables.

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At the Wolseley one evening Rickman passed a table at which Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis and Ian McEwan huddled.

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