Crossword clues for fauntleroy
fauntleroy
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in various usages, from the gentle boy hero of Frances Hodgson Burnett's popular novel "Little Lord Fauntleroy" (1885). The family name is recorded from mid-13c., literally "son of the king" (Anglo-French Le Enfant le Roy), from faunt, a Middle English variant of enfaunt (see infant). Middle English also had fauntekin "a little child" (late 14c.).
Wikipedia
Fauntleroy is the main character in the children's novel Little Lord Fauntleroy.
Fauntleroy may also refer to:
- Fauntleroy (surname)
- Fauntleroy (play), a play by John Augustus Stone
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Fauntleroy, Seattle, Washington, United States
- Fauntleroy Creek, a stream in the Fauntleroy neighborhood of West Seattle, Seattle, Washington
- Fauntleroy Way SW, a main arterial in West Seattle, Seattle
Fauntleroy was a play by early 19th century American playwright John Augustus Stone.
Category:Plays by John Augustus Stone Category:19th-century plays
Fauntleroy is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Cedric Fauntleroy (1891–1973), American pilot
- Henry Fauntleroy (1784–1824), English banker and forger
- Thomas T. Fauntleroy (soldier) (1796–1883), American soldier
- Thomas T. Fauntleroy (lawyer) (1823–1894), American lawyer
Usage examples of "fauntleroy".
I had to sack him because he did bite one of the other kids whose father happens to be on the Council, and, of course, I must admit he had one of those hoarse, foggy, dock-side voices, with only one vowel-sound, like they all have in Brayne, but he would have looked a dream all togged up in a Fauntleroy suit.
Lord Fauntleroy in England and he will be glad to show me his grand and very ancient castle.
Helen in 1888, that it had been superseded in her conscious memory by Little Lord Fauntleroy, which she had read shortly afterwards, only to reappear three years later in the guise of the Frost King when she was told of Jack Frost.
In person, with their brightly colored Little Lord Fauntleroy clothes, they seemed nothing more than limey perverts.
It was done by opening his grey eyes rather wide, allowing the corners of his mouth to droop, and assuming a gentle, pleading expression, resembling that of the late little Lord Fauntleroy who must, by the way, be quite old now, and an awful prig.
Thurtell was a hero, Thistlewood a patriot, and Fauntleroy was discovered to be exactly like Buonaparte!
You and Sweet Thing bobbasheely on back to the hotel now, and me and Uncle Remus and Lord Fauntleroy will mosey along any time up to midnight, providing of course we are through here.
He was dressed in a little Lord Fauntleroy suit--or rather, he had been.
Moro makes Caligula and Hitler and De Sade look like little Lord Fauntleroy.
Having a joke with little Lord Fauntleroy here is one thing, but making a false statement to a police c nicer is a criminal offence punishable by.
Whoever does it probably has to get up at crack of dawn to avoid being seen, and I don't just see Little Lord Fauntleroy frisking around in the dew.
Not to mention two thousand square feet of moldy carpet, and enough velvet drapes to make Little Lord Fauntleroy pants for every down-and-out in Greater LA.
All heads turned toward Lapp, all eyes except Shorty's assessing him with the dull disdain of macho eyes confronting a little Lord Fauntleroy.
The boy wore a black cape and top hat over his Little Lord Fauntleroy playsuit, and the table in front of him featured a bowl of fire, a houlette of cards, and a winsome bunny who seemed to be winking broadly.
There were a few old children's classics among themgems like Little Lord Fauntleroy and Grey-friars Bobbybut the majority were fifty-year old bestsellers that no one had ever heard of after their brief success.