Gillette

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Gillette

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Gillette (surname)

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Gillette, Wyoming

Alternative forms

Gillet, Gillett

Etymology

Alternative form of Gillett

Razor brand: invented by American businessman King C. Gillette.

Proper noun

Gillette (countable and uncountable, plural Gillettes)

A surname, variant of Gillett.
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.
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

→ Czech: žiletka
→ Ewe: žilett
→ Indonesian: silet
- → Ternate: silet
→ Polish: żyletka
→ Portuguese: gilete
→ Turkish: jilet

See also

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Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Gillette ?

a surname

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