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St. George
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English
Saint George<dab!>
Etymology
After Saint George. en sex position a sex position 1 is from Saint George and the Dragon the legend of his defeating a dragon, with the images depicting him killing it while mounted on a horse.
Pronunciation
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-St. George.wav US
Proper noun
en Saint George the patron saint of England.
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28 December 1978 w:Joseph McLellan Curio GeorgeSt. George: Smithsonian Gets Precious Miniature Smithsonian Given Precious Miniature https://web.archive.org/web/20261012041022/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1978/12/28/curio-george/0f43bf5c-86ce-4ff2-8b81-ecc75c26477e/ St. George, the original knight in shining armor, came to the National Museum of Natural History yesterday, and there he sits now, nearly 7 inches tall, in a glass case across the room from the Hope Diamond.
23 April 1993 Ray Bennett Ode to St. GeorgeThe Robin Hood pub and restaurant plans to mark England’s patron saint’s day with a special dinner tonight. https://web.archive.org/web/20260507023526/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-04-23-va-26450-story.html That was enough, however, to impress England’s King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted), who adopted St. George while he was mucking about with other people’s religion in the Holy Land during the Middle Ages.
22 June 2019 Palko Karasz Botched Statue of St. George Is ‘Unrestored’ to Its Dignity https://web.archive.org/web/20190622154248/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/22/world/europe/spain-statue-st-george-botched.html A 16th-century wooden statue of St. George, venerated as a Christian martyr who killed a dragon to rescue a Libyan king’s daughter, has been unrestored in Spain to all its slightly faded glory after a botched paint job turned it into something resembling the cartoon character Tintin.
en town co/Charlotte County p/New Brunswick c/Canada.
en village co/Brant County p/Ontario c/Canada.
en small city on isl/St. George Island arch/Pribilof Islands s/Alaska.
en former CDP/and/neighborhood city/Lauderhill co/Broward County s/Florida c/USA.
en unincorporated community co/Charlton County s/Georgia c/USA, also spelled as en Saint George.
en small city co/Pottawatomie County s/Kansas c/USA.
en town co/Knox County s/Maine c/USA.
en census-designated place/and/former city co/St. Louis County s/Missouri c/USA, disincorporated in 2011.
en unincorporated community co/Wright County s/Missouri.
en neighborhood bor/Staten Island s/New York.
en town/county seat co/Dorchester County s/South Carolina c/USA.
en city/county seat co/Washington County s/Utah c/USA.
en town co/Chittenden County s/Vermont c/USA.
Derived terms
en St. George's Day St. George's Cross St. George's mushroom St. George's Caye St. George's Middleton St George Cape St. George St George's Channel St. Geezy
Noun
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en sex position en vulgar dated A sex position in which the woman is seated on top of the man.
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en 1900 An English Bohemian The Book of Exposition: (Kitab al-Izah fi'Ilm al-Nikah b-it-Tamam w-al-Kamal) Literally translated from the Arabic The "St. George"—the delight of many generations of vigorous Anglo-Saxons,— is sternly forbidden by Qu'ranic injunction.
Derived terms
en ride St. George mount St. George riding St. George
References
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