Remington

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Remington

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The surname is from Rimington, from Old English rima (“edge, border”) + -ing + -tun (literally “settlement by the boundary stream”).

Remington

1. An English habitational surname from Old English; (art) used specifically of Frederic Remington (1861–1909), an American artist who specialized in depictions of the Old West.
   • 2011 January 14, David Bromwich, “Howard Hawks, Hollywood's finest practitioner of everyday chivalry”, in The Guardian:

     One of his movies may suggest an inward unity and spaciousness that seems a mark of good fiction, as in The Big Sleep; it may have the scope and resonance to fill a historical landscape worthy of Remington, as Red River does.

   • 2008, Erik D. Stoops, Serpentauria, page 19:

     Rafe loved Remington. He so typified the old West.

   • 2000, William Blackmon, The Tribulation Cycle, iUniverse, page 231:

     In jeans, a long sleeved canvas shirt and boots, Young gave the appearance of a living Remington painting as he listened quietly to Jenkins' rendition of the story.

2. A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
3. A town in Indiana; named for the founder of the town's general store.
4. A neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland; named for early landowner William Remington.
5. A town in Virginia.
6. A hamlet in Ohio.
7. A town in Wisconsin.

Remington (plural Remingtons)

1. A gun produced by the American manufacturer Remington Arms.
2. A kind of typewriter.

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