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pontiac
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Pontiac was a brand of automobiles manufactured and sold by General Motors (GM); though production ended in 2009, Pontiac remains a registered and active trademark of GM. The Pontiac automobile brand was established in 1926 as a companion make for GM's ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Ottawa tribal leader (c.1720-1769), his name is given in native (Algonquian) form as bwandiag . The city in Michigan, U.S., settled in 1818, was named for him as he is said to be buried nearby. The automobile brand was begun in 1926, discontinued 2010.
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Population (2000): 66337 Housing Units (2000): 26336 Land area (2000): 19.991869 sq. miles (51.778700 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.220139 sq. miles (0.570157 sq. km) Total area (2000): 20.212008 sq. miles (52.348857 sq. km) FIPS code: 65440 Located within: ...
Usage examples of pontiac.
He had, however, made a reputation, which he had seemed not to value, save as a means of showing hostility to the governing race, and the Seigneury of Pontiac, when it fell to him, had more charms for him than any celebrity to be won at the bar.
George Fournel was the heir to the Seigneury of Pontiac, not Louis Racine.
Can you wonder that this dreamer, when the Seigneury of Pontiac came to him, felt as if a new life were opened up to him, and saw a way to some of his ambitions.
He was a man of strange whims and vanities, and his resentment at his exclusion from the Seigneury of Pontiac had become a fixed idea.
He was making a tour of the Province, but it was obvious that he had gone out of his way to visit Pontiac, for there were disquieting rumours in the air concerning the loyalty of the district.
Next day, upon the church, upon the Louis Quinze Hotel, and elsewhere, the Union Jack flew--the British colours flaunted it in Pontiac with welcome to the Governor.
But she proves her love to us, by taking her husband from Pontiac and coming back to us.
The coming of the militia had been wholly unexpected by the people of Pontiac, but the cause was not far to seek.
He had but two set-backs, and the man before him in the Manor House of Pontiac was the cause of both.
It had been his fancy to play the Seigneur, the lord magnificent and bountiful, and he had determined to use wealth and all manner of influence to have the title of Baron of Pontiac revived--it had been obsolete for a hundred years.
His love of the history of his country was a mania with him, and he looked forward, on arriving at Pontiac, to being the apostle of French independence on the continent.
The day of pleasure done and dusk settled on Pontiac and on the encampment of soldiers in the valley, a light still burned in the library at the Manor House long after midnight.
Louis was no longer--indeed, never had been--Seigneur of Pontiac, and they had no right there, had never had any right there.
But before leaving the Manor House of Pontiac he had armed himself with pistols, in the grim hope that he might be required to use them.
I brought you from Pontiac, and Madame there followed, and her servant shot me.