Allan

Proper noun

Meaning

A male given name from the Celtic languages, a less common spelling of Alan.

A surname transferred from the given name derived from the given name, more often spelled Allen.

A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.

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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family. Quentin Crisp

Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels. It (Gormenghast trilogy) is a very, very great work ... a classic of our age. Mervyn Peake

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe. John Lennon

The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas. Tom Robbins

I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot. Andy Richter

While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht. David Antin

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