Gillette

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Alternative form of Gillett

Proper noun

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Gillette (countable and uncountable, plural Gillettes)

  1. A surname, variant of Gillett.
  2. A placename
    1. A ghost town in Teller County, Colorado, United States.
    2. An unincorporated community in Manatee County, Florida, United States.
    3. An unincorporated community in Morris County, New Jersey, United States.
    4. A city, the county seat of Campbell County, Wyoming, United States.
      • 1979, United States Department of Commerce, “Jobs Through Economic Development”, in Boomtown Problems:
        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.
      • 2011, Anne Marie Chaker, “Should Junk Food Be Sold In Schools?”, in School Diet and Exercise Programs May Go Too Far, pages 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.
      • 2014, Monica Moses, “American Craft”, in Creative Outliers, page 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.
  3. A brand of razor blade
    • 2005, Dan Gerber, A Voice from the River, page 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

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Descendants

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  • Czech: žiletka
  • Ewe: žilett
  • Indonesian: silet
  • Polish: żyletka
  • Portuguese: gilete
  • Turkish: jilet

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French

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Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Gillette ?

  1. a surname