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Montclair
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English
Etymology
From en fr mont mountain + fr clair clear.
Proper noun
en place c/USA, including:
en city co/San Bernardino County s/California.
en neighborhood city/Oakland s/California.
en 2024 Tommy Orange Wandering Stars Harvill Secker 137 That was where he grew up near a place that called itself Montclair, tucked into the hills on the other side of Highway 13, where everyone pretended it was a faraway luxury mountain town, when it wasn’t even not Oakland, just an area, hardly more than a neighborhood with a fancy sign, not like Piedmont, which had paid for the right to declare itself its own city, to become officially not-Oakland.
en twp co/Essex County s/New Jersey. TopoZone: Montclair, New Jersey
en Wayne Parry U.S. bans on gasoline-powered leaf blowers grow, as does blowback from landscaping industry w:AP News https://apnews.com/article/gas-powered-leaf-blower-bans-landscaping-climate-bcd6f7ffbd92abdf00d699457ce5333a 2024-06-20 Since that ban took effect last October, “Montclair has been a healthier, cleaner, quieter community,” she said. https://web.archive.org/web/20240819155005/https://apnews.com/article/gas-powered-leaf-blower-bans-landscaping-climate-bcd6f7ffbd92abdf00d699457ce5333a
Derived terms
en Upper Montclair
References
Anagrams
en acilmnort Clairmont climatron