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archibald
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Archibald is a masculine given name , composed of the Germanic elements erchan (with an original meaning of "genuine" or "precious") and bald "bold". Medieval forms include Old High German Erchambald, Erkanbold, Erkanbald and Anglo-Saxon Eorcenbald . Erkanbald, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
masc. proper name, from Old High German Erchanbald , literally "genuine bold," from erchan "genuine" + bald (see bold ). Archie, British World War I military slang for "German anti-aircraft fire" (1915) supposedly is from black humor of airmen dodging hostile ...
Usage examples of archibald.
Watergate affair, that of Archibald Cox, a special prosecutor later fired by Nixon, the corporations got off easy.
Archibald Clavering Gunter and the Home Publishing Company, and they made a very large sale of it.
Archibald, Duke of Argyle, his dependents congratulated me on being such a favourite of his Grace.
He squints into the failing sun, toward the far opposite slope, and his eye is caught by the gleaming, soaring white marble obelisk that still marks the remains of the man that young Wolfgang murdered, Horace Archibald Craig.
Knowall men whom it may concern that DENNIS PETERSEN appeared before me, Registrar of Deeds, he, the said appearer, being duly authorized by a power of attorney executed at Ladyburg on the 12th day of May, 1919, by JOHN ARCHIBALD ANDERS which power was witnessed in accordance with law .
A bachelor of fifty-nine, a polished figure in society, a former groom in waiting to Edward VII and still an intimate at court, son of an Admiral of the Fleet, grandson and godson of other admirals, a keen fisherman, deer stalker, and good shot, Sir Archibald Berkeley Milne appeared a natural choice in 1911 for the Mediterranean Command, the most fashionable, if no longer the premier post in the British Navy.
Bonnie Lamb's last call was to Peter Archibald at the Rodalp & Burns advertising agency in Manhattan.
Although Sir Archibald would never connect such a vulgar term as ape leader with his daughter, he did think it odd of Henrietta to wear such an overpowering cap.
At the ground floor, Archibald made a quick gesture with his head, nodding toward a pair of doors with an interior automatic bar lock.
He dressed, wrote a long letter to a former delegate, Archibald Bulloch, who was the new president of Georgia, and following breakfast, walked to the State House, knowing what was in store.
Miss Margaret Campbell was thirty-scven, Miss Cowden told me, the only relative of the Reverend Archibald Campbell, with whom she had lived for the past twenty years, since the death of their parents.
Clinton sent a large detachment to the Caribbean to take the French island of Saint Lucia and another of 3,500 men under Scottish brigadier general Archibald Campbell to try to capture Savannah, Georgia.
Archibald ('in Gallowfarren'), killed with shots of pistols and hagbuts in 1608.
Trying to get you off your guard, same trick worked with Archibald .
The TV cameras picked up the scene in close-up while in Denver Archibald Pincer came close to crawling right into his receiving set.