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Word: huguenots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...back a gentleman and one a Connecticut rough.' For native and ingenuous modesty this has its only parallel in the historic description by the Kentuckian of the guests at a Cincinnati dinner party which he had attended: 'There were present, sir, one Kentucky gentleman, whom you know, sir; one Huguenot from the Old South State; a Virginian - Poindexter stock; one Wolverine, two Buckeyes, and a Yankee son-of-a-peddlar from Massachusetts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD AND YALE-BOSTON AND NEW YORK. | 1/5/1883 | See Source »

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