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clifton

Word definitions for clifton in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Clifton is a historic home located near Shadwell , Albemarle County, Virginia . It was built about 1800, and is a large, rambling two-story, five bay, wood frame dwelling. The house has later 19th- and 20th-century Colonial Revival -style additions and ...

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 557 Housing Units (2000): 278 Land area (2000): 0.404005 sq. miles (1.046369 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.404005 sq. miles (1.046369 sq. km) FIPS code: 14200 Located within: Kansas ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of several places in England, especially a suburb of Bristol, England. 2 (surname A=An English habitational from=Old English dot=) for someone who lived in a town of this name.

Usage examples of clifton.

They understand this in England, and send a patient with a dry irritating cough to Torquay or Penzance, while they send another with relaxed bronchial membranes to Clifton or Brighton.

And I'd been down the same road only a few years before with my pal Clifton Bering.

His father was a Kindle County cop, and Clifton always had his feet in both camps, at home with civil rights progressives as well as Party figures.

I couldn't believe that Clifton Bering, wise and wonderful, would turn against every other value I knew him to adhere to so that he could, almost out of duty, exercise a privilege long denied others like him.

Our true continental divide, the one bedotween black and white, fell open, leaving us, friends of thirty years, on either side, watching as Clifton and all the good he'd been destined to do disappeared inside.

With the exception of Clifton, his grandmother's 'majordomo,' he made, as a small child, no intimate friend.

But only to Clifton, then a man of fifty with a great gravity and long black whiskers, did Eustace relieve his soul.

It reached the ears of Clifton, who himself came out to see what this might mean.

If Lady Valleys rings up, Clifton, don't take the message, but call me.

I know the whereabouts of three for sure: Lorenzo Rickman, Pudgie Clifton, and John Luchek.

Which leaves Clifton, who's currently at the tail end of ninety days on a misdemeanor possession.

I knew from the police report that Pudgie was born Cedric Costello Clifton in 1950, the same year I was.

Felicia Clifton opened the door, barefoot, dressed in jeans and a T-shirt, with a dust rag hanging from a belt loop.

I peered through the fisheye and saw Felicia Clifton standing outside, staring off across the parking lot.

Doug Clifton, former executive editor of the Miami Herald, describes Hiaasen's bi-weekly column.