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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of southeast Massachusetts on the Taunton River south of Boston. Settled in the 1630s, it was once a center of silversmithing.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A broadcloth of the seventeenth century.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A town in
Somerset ,England
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Examples
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I grew up in Taunton, which in "British" is pretty much phonetic but in Bostonian is a very harshly-accented "Taw - ` n" (this caused problems and a very amused bartender when I tried to order a Taunton Ale in Oxford!).
Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09 Cath@VWXYNot? 2009
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Last month, Mr. Frank, 70, drafted former President Bill Clinton to appear at a campaign event in Taunton, a sign of how seriously Mr. Frank takes the race.
Frank's Own Battle Erodes Help for Fellow Democrats Damian Paletta 2010
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A school in Taunton takes a dim view of this sort of thing:
Psychological evaluation for an 8 year old Christian « Anglican Samizdat 2009
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The new MP for Taunton is our own Jeremy Browne, and House Points has every confidence that history will not repeat itself.
Even more exciting, they had proportional representation 2005
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The new MP for Taunton is our own Jeremy Browne, and House Points has every confidence that history will not repeat itself.
Archive 2005-06-01 2005
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Farmer (more than one line) [Earliest known (1) born ca. 1667 in Taunton, Somersetshire, England; (2) born ca. 1560 in London, England]
INVESTIGATION OF SURNAMES IN MY DIRECT ANCESTRY Maggie Jochild 2004
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Wyatt [Earliest known born ca. 1670 in Taunton, Somersetshire, England]
INVESTIGATION OF SURNAMES IN MY DIRECT ANCESTRY Maggie Jochild 2004
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Wyatt [Earliest known born ca. 1670 in Taunton, Somersetshire, England]
Archive 2004-08-15 Maggie Jochild 2004
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Farmer (more than one line) [Earliest known (1) born ca. 1667 in Taunton, Somersetshire, England; (2) born ca. 1560 in London, England]
Archive 2004-08-15 Maggie Jochild 2004
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My dad grew up in Taunton, Mass., and was an avid Red Sox fan.
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