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cresson

adj. of a moderate yellow-green color that is greener and deeper than moss green and yellower and darker than pea green [syn: cress green, watercress]

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Cresson, PA -- U.S. borough in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 1631
Housing Units (2000): 786
Land area (2000): 0.494589 sq. miles (1.280980 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.494589 sq. miles (1.280980 sq. km)
FIPS code: 17136
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.462631 N, 78.586319 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 16630
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Cresson, PA
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Cresson

Cresson is the French word for watercress. It may refer to:

Places
  • Battle of Cresson, a small battle fought on May 1, 1187 in what now is Israel, near Nazareth
  • Cresson, Pennsylvania, a United States borough
  • Cressona, Pennsylvania, a United States borough
  • Cresson Township, Pennsylvania, a U.S. township
  • Cresson, Texas, a United States city
People
  • Cresson Kearny, U.S. survival guide writer
  • Édith Cresson, former Prime Minister of France.
  • Elliott Cresson, American philanthropist
    • Elliott Cresson Medal, scientific award of the Franklin Institute
  • Ezra Townsend Cresson, American entomologist
  • Warder Cresson, religious enthusiast
  • William Penn Cresson, (d. 1932) Architect, writer and diplomat
  • Margaret French Cresson, (b. 1889 - d. 1973), scuptress

Usage examples of "cresson".

Gerard Cresson sat in his wheelchair playing the piano, a small man with the white intense face of the invalid, black hair hanging almost to his shoulders.

Gerard Cresson sat at the table and read Gallagher's letter, then pushed it across to her, face grave.

It laid out the task ahead of them, procedure, communication channel via the Cressons in Granville.

Sophia Cresson waited on the edge of a wood beside the field seven miles northwest of Granville which was the designated landing strip.

Gerard Cresson sat in his wheelchair at the table in (he sitting room and refilled the glasses with red wine "No.

Once there, Cresson can radio London and have a Lysander over any night we want.

It was raining when we reached Cresson, a wind-driven rain that had forced the agent at the newsstand to close himself in, and that beat back from the rails in parallel lines of white spray.

Around me, with Cresson as a center, stretched an irregular circumference of mountain, with possibly a ten-mile radius, and in it I was to find the residence of a woman whose first name I did not know, and a man who, so far, had been a purely chimerical person.

So the occupant of lower seven had got on the car at Cresson, probably with Alison West and her companion.

She wrote me charming letters, and in the summer, when they went to Cresson, she asked me to visit her there.

I'm going to Cresson to-morrow, to try to trace him a little from there.

I suppose you know" - to Hotchkiss - "that the police were here while we were at Cresson, and that they found the bag that I brought from the wreck?

In the interval we discussed the strange occurrence at Cresson, which lost nothing by Hotchkiss' dry narration.

It was raining when we reached Cresson, a wind-driven rain that had forced the agent at the newsstand to close himself in, and that beat back from the rails in parallel lines of white spray.