Definitions
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- proper noun A male
given name . - proper noun A patronymic
surname .
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- noun Norse chieftain who became the first duke of Normandy (860-931)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Caen, and a butcher called Rolf, to whom the King, mocking all chivalry, gave the gilt spurs before he started.
The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Maurice Hewlett 1892
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Uncle Rolf is always up early, but he can't bear to have breakfast early.
Queechy 1854
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Call Rolf and warn him that Harcourt took a shuttle to the airport.
Dark Warrior Untamed Alexis Morgan 2010
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Call Rolf and warn him that Harcourt took a shuttle to the airport.
Dark Warrior Untamed Alexis Morgan 2010
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The state used the land to create a nature conservancy, known as the Rolf and Alexandra Kauka Wildlife Management Area.
A Georgia Plantation 2009
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Ignoring the smart of yesterday's wound, he snatched the sword Rolf held out to him, and started forward.
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And I was like, 'Oh, I had art with some guy called Rolf Harris' and she was like, 'Oh my God!'
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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A greater chieftain of the Northmen than Hastings was soon to follow his example, and found Normandy in France; but before Rolf, that is, Rollo, came and gave the name of his race to a French province, the piratical.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 1830
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Sintram's cries called Rolf and other attendants into the hall; and only by great labour did their united efforts awake the lord of the castle.
Sintram and His Companions Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqu�� 1810
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Except that there is no one from Dusseldorf called Rolf to cheer us up.
The Guardian World News Larry Elliott, Charlie Brooker, Stuart Jeffries, G 2009
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