1. Gloucester - Noun
2. Gloucester - Proper noun
a city in southwestern England in Gloucestershire on the Severn
a town in northeastern Massachusetts on Cape Ann to the northeast of Boston; the harbor has been a fishing center for centuries
Source: WordNetGloucester O Let me kiss that hand. Lear Let me wipe it first, it smells of mortality. William Shakespeare
When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world. James Buchan
GLOUCESTER I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night I thank my God for my humility. William Shakespeare
GLOUCESTER Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, Than in my greatness covet to be hid, And in the vapour of my glory smotherd. But God be thanked.... William Shakespeare
After the Duke of Bedford died in 1435, the Duke of Gloucester claimed the Regency himself, but was contested in this by the other members of the Council. Source: Internet
Albany has developed a conscience — he is disgusted by the sisters' treatment of Lear, and the mutilation of Gloucester, and denounces his wife. Source: Internet