chesterfield
Speech parts
1. chesterfield - Noun
2. Chesterfield - Proper noun
Meaning
a fitted overcoat with a velvet collar
an overstuffed davenport with upright armrests
suave and witty English statesman remembered mostly for letters to his son (1694-1773)
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Examples
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
That one should practice what one preaches is generally agreed, but anyone who has the indiscretion to preach what both he and his hearers practice must always incur-as Lord Chesterfield has incurred-the gravest moral reprobation.
As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.'
After several years of court cases in which Chesterfield County fought annexation, more than 47,000 people who once were Chesterfield County residents found themselves within the city's perimeters on January 1, 1970.
As a tribute to his life and works, a bronze statue of Stephenson was unveiled at Chesterfield railway station (in the town where Stephenson spent the last ten years of his life) on 28 October 2005, marking the completion of improvements to the station.
Fullerton resident Christine Gamez fostered Tyson, a pit bull mix, for the last few weeks but was forced to return him to L.A.’s Chesterfield Square shelter after neighbors in her apartment complex complained about his barks and cries.