Chesterfield
See also: chesterfield
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Proper noun
Chesterfield
- Any of a number settlements.
- A market town and borough in Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom.
- A town, the county seat of Chesterfield County, South Carolina, United States.
- A municipality of St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
- Ellipsis of Rural Municipality of Chesterfield No. 261.; A rural municipality of Saskatchewan, Canada
- Ellipsis of Chesterfield County.
Derived terms
- Chesterfield County
- Chesterfield Court House
- Chesterfield No. 261
- County of Chesterfield
- Earl Chesterfield
- Earldom of Chesterfield
- Earl of Chesterfield
- Lord Chesterfield
- Lord of Chesterfield
- Municipality of Chesterfield
- Municipality of Chesterfield No. 261
- Rural Municipality of Chesterfield
- Rural Municipality of Chesterfield No. 261
Etymology 2
In reference to Lord Chesterfield, author of Principles of Politeness and of Knowing the World, 1786.
Noun
Chesterfield (plural Chesterfields)
- (dated) An extremely polite person.
- 1901, Mrs. John A. Logan, Thirty Years in Washington, page 141:
- The White House attendants are Chesterfields of politeness, and the visitor must be aggressive and persistent indeed who is not kept within proper limits without having his sensibilities wounded.
- 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World:
- "The man-eatin' Papuans had me once, but they are Chesterfields compared to this crowd."
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