Wooster
Americannoun
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David, 1711–77, American Revolutionary War general.
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a city in N Ohio.
Example Sentences
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He has a voice that is so supple, eager and well-trained that it sometimes comes across as embarrassingly orotund—though, to be fair, this is the very quality that made him such a splendid Jeeves, the valet to the fop Bertie Wooster, in the TV production of the stories of P.G.
In the 1980s, he came to the U.S. to attend the College of Wooster, a small liberal-arts school in northern Ohio.
At Wooster, James ran the campus pub and joined a club for budding investors.
But at the summit of Wodehouse’s genius are the stories of Bertie Wooster and his “gentleman’s personal gentleman,” or valet, Jeeves.
From Los Angeles Times
When we see "polar bears on melting glaciers, we have an empathetic response," said Susan Clayton, a conservation psychologist at the College of Wooster.
From Salon
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