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Dolores

fem. proper name, from Spanish Maria de los Dolores, literally "Mary of the Sorrows," from plural of dolor, from Latin dolor "pain, sorrow."

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Dolores, CO -- U.S. town in Colorado
Population (2000): 857
Housing Units (2000): 423
Land area (2000): 0.699499 sq. miles (1.811694 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.699499 sq. miles (1.811694 sq. km)
FIPS code: 20770
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 37.474540 N, 108.498294 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 81323
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Dolores -- U.S. County in Colorado
Population (2000): 1844
Housing Units (2000): 1193
Land area (2000): 1066.965884 sq. miles (2763.428837 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.128081 sq. miles (2.921716 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1068.093965 sq. miles (2766.350553 sq. km)
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 37.761037 N, 108.586457 W
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Wikipedia
Dolores

Dolores, Spanish for 'sorrows', is short for La Virgen María de los Dolores, Our Lady of Sorrows

Dolores may also refer to:

Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs)

"Dolores", subtitled "Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs" is a poem by A. C. Swinburne first published in his 1866 Poems and Ballads. The poem, in 440 lines, regards the figure of the titular "Dolores, Our Lady of Pain", thus named at the close of many of its stanzas.

Dolores (album)

Dolores is the sixth album by the jazz/ ambient band Bohren & der Club of Gore. This album ranked first in the top 50 albums of 2008 compiled by music reviews site The Silent Ballet.

Dolores (given name)

Dolores (or Delores) is a given name.

Dolores (Susann novel)

Dolores (1976) is Jacqueline Susann's last novel. It is a thinly veiled presentation on the life of Jacqueline Kennedy. It was published in 1976. A condensed version of the novel was published in the Ladies' Home Journal, under the title "Jackie by Jackie." When her severe illness prevented Susann from completing Dolores, her close friend and fellow writer Rex Reed anonymously took over. the novel was published posthumously.

Dolores (artists' model)

"Dolores" (11 March 1894 – 8 August 1934), real name Norine Fournier Lattimore (née Schofield), was an artists' model who was a fixture on London's bohemian scene between the First and Second World Wars. She posed for Jacob Epstein for whom she played the role of "the High Priestess of Beauty" and who called her "the Phryne of modern times". The Hearst Press in America, who sensationally serialised her life story, called her "The 'Fatal Woman' of the London Studios". She was a contemporary of Betty May, Euphemia Lamb and Lilian Shelley.

Dolores (Ziegfeld girl)

Dolores or Rose Dolores (born Kathleen Rose; 1893 or 1894 – 7 November 1975) was the first celebrity clothes model and has been credited with inventing the "blank hauteur" of the modern fashion model. Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. called her "The loveliest showgirl in the world". She was known for her commanding stage presence and became the star of the Ziegfeld Follies from 1917 until her retirement in 1923. She lived the rest of her life in Paris and during the Second World War helped Allied airmen escape the German occupation.

Dolores (song)

"Dolores" is a song recorded by Frank Sinatra with the Tommy Dorsey Band in 1941.

Usage examples of "dolores".

Dolores quickly drew her knife and calmly sliced through the stuff as it cascaded down, but others around her screamed and tried to flee.

Dolores describes these persons as afraid of obliteration, emotional engulfment.

After a few days of residence in the part of the Alhambra occupied by Dame Tia Antonia and her family, of which the handmaid Dolores was the most fascinating member, Irving succeeded in establishing himself in a remote and vacant part of the vast pile, in a suite of delicate and elegant chambers with secluded gardens and fountains, that had once been occupied by the beautiful Elizabeth of Farnese, daughter of the Duke of Parma, and more than four centuries ago by a Moorish beauty named Lindaraxa, who flourished in the court of Muhamed the Left-Handed.

His eyes might as well have been speakin right out loud, sayin, 'You got away with it once, Dolores Claiborne, and considerin the kind of man my Dad says Joe St George was, maybe that was all right.

Dolores immediately began pulling her catch out of the water, and he strained with all his might to get his end out.

You're Nancy Bannister from Kennebunk, and I'm Dolores Claiborne from right here on Little Tall Island.

Sammy ain't a day over twenty-five, but his Dad was in the search-party that found Joe, and I all at once realized that Duke Marchant'd probably raised Sammy and all the rest of his not-too-brights on the notion that Dolores Claiborne St George had done away with her old man.

It's all over, you see―for Joe, for Vera, for Michael Donovan, for Donald n Helga … and for Dolores Claiborne, too.

As for Defence Against the Dark Arts, your marks have been generally high, Professor Lupin in particular thought you - are you quite sure you wouldn't like a cough drop, Dolores?

There was ai Dolores Potter who talked me into putting it^e were in the girls' room together.

Free children's theater can be seen at La Dolores, 1980 North Orchard, Mondays and Wednesdays at 1 PM.

He and Dolores had been at Hunt College together, in physics and the life sciences.

Or had guilt begun to infect him, too, so that to distract himself from the thing he’d done he ended up with these Mabels and Lucies and Doloreses?

When a third son was born to Dolores de Cristo Matamoro, she remembered her studies in Mayan culture when she was growing up back in Tekax in the Yucatan, and since she was unsure who the father of this child was, she named him for Hunahpu.

She’s a yellow-brown woman who reminds Snowman of Dolores, his long-lost Philippina nanny.