Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
masc. proper name, French Gervais, from Old High German Gervas, literally "serving with one's spear," from ger "spear" + Celtic base *vas- "servant."
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Housing Units (2000): 477
Land area (2000): 0.391334 sq. miles (1.013550 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.391334 sq. miles (1.013550 sq. km)
FIPS code: 28650
Located within: Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location: 45.108252 N, 122.897460 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 97026
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Headwords:
Gervais
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Usage examples of "gervais".
Leaving Claire and Gervais on one side, there were as yet only Denis and Ambroise--the first to wing their flight abroad--engaged in building up their fortunes in Paris.
Gervais at nineteen years of age was quite a colossus, the tallest and the strongest of the family, with short, curly black hair, large bright eyes, and a full broad-featured face.
We were sitting in Eric Rynearson's museum of a living room, Gervais in a cruel-looking clawfooted chair with my gun and the contents of my pockets spread out on the table holding up the skull ashtray at his elbow, including my credentials, Rynearson's jade lighter, the ring of keys I'd taken out of the bedroom door, and the five thousand dollars.
Mathieu already disburdened himself on Gervais of a part of his duties, and was only waiting to see him married to give him the control of the whole farm.
This evening he shot and killed Richard Marsh, chief designer of the Gervais Aircraft Corporation at Farmingdale, Long Island.
Besides the theft from Little Gervais, and from the Pierron orchard, I suspect him of a theft committed in the house of His Grace the late Bishop of D -- .
Besides the Petit Gervais and Pierron robberies, I suspect him also of a robbery committed on his highness, the late Bishop of D—.