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Gillette
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gillette
English
+ (surname)
+, Wyoming
Alternative forms
en Gillet Gillett
Etymology
en Gillett.
Razor brand: invented by American businessman King C. Gillette.
Proper noun
~
en Gillett.
A placename
en ghost town co/Teller County s/Colorado c/USA.
en unincorporated community co/Manatee County s/Florida c/USA.
en unincorporated community twp:Suf/Long Hill co/Morris County s/New Jersey c/USA. TopoZone: Gillette, New Jersey
en city/county seat co/Campbell County s/Wyoming c/USA.
en 1979 United States Department of Commerce Boomtown Problems https://archive.org/details/jobsthroughecono00unit Jobs Through Economic Development In those 18 years, Gillette, a small town in northeastern Wyoming, has changed from a group of houses and a railroad depot servicing a ranching and farming community to a mining boomtown, growing at a rate of 15 to 20 percent a year.
en 2011 Anne Marie Chaker School Diet and Exercise Programs May Go Too Far https://archive.org/details/shouldjunkfoodbe0000pieh Should Junk Food Be Sold In Schools? 70–1 Gillette is a dusty, bustling coal-mining center in north-eastern Wyoming, bisected by a railroad operated by Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., which delivers coal to such cities as Chicago and Centralia, Wash.
en 2014 Monica Moses Creative Outliers American Craft 6 By one estimate, there are as many full-time craft artists in the United States as there are people in the town of Gillette, Wyoming. Never heard of Gillette? Well, no wonder; like the universe of craft artists, it has a relatively small population.
A brand of razor blade.
en 2005 Dan Gerber A Voice from the River 22 In the men's room he watched a man about his own age pathetically trying to shave a five-day beard with a rusty Gillette razor he had probably found in a trash bin.
Quotations
en
Descendants
All descendants below have become generic for any razor, regardless of brand.
cs žiletka 1
et žilett 1
id silet 1
tft silet 1
pl żyletka 1
pt gilete 1
tr jilet 1
Translations
razor balde
Spanish: es gillette f
See also
en Gillet Gillett Gilet Gilett Gilette
References
en eponyms
French
Pronunciation
Gilette
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Mecanautes-Gillette.wav France
Proper noun
fr