Gillette
English
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
- A ghost town in Teller County, Colorado, United States.
- An unincorporatedcommunity in Manatee County, Florida, United States.
- An unincorporatedcommunity in Morris County, New Jersey, United States.
- A city, the county seat of Campbell County, Wyoming, United States.
- 1979, United States Department of Commerce, Boomtown Problems, in "Jobs Through Economic Development":
- 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, School Diet and Exercise Programs May Go Too Far, in "Should Junk Food Be Sold In Schools?", 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, Creative Outliers, in "American Craft", 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.
- 1979, United States Department of Commerce, Boomtown Problems, in "Jobs Through Economic Development":
- 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.
- 2005, Dan Gerber, A Voice from the River (page 22)
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:Gillette.
Descendants
- → Czech: žiletka
- → Ewe: žilett
- → Indonesian: silet
- → Ternate: silet
- → Polish: żyletka
- → Portuguese: gilete
- → Turkish: jilet
See also
- Gilet
- Gilett
- Gilette
- Gillet
- Gillett
French
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
Gillette ?
- a surname