Probert
Proper noun
Meaning
Probert (plural Proberts)
A Welsh surname originating as a patronymic.
Examples
Award-winning garden designer and florist Pip Probert will show visitors how to make Christmas wreaths and garlands from foliage, cones and berries found in the grounds of beautiful Ness Botanic Gardens.
Given his background as a Merchant Marine and with sailing, perhaps Probert relies on his navagation skills to chart and maintain a proper course when directing music ensembles.
Multicultural characters add depth (Ben's family runs a Mexican restaurant), and the illustrations by Tim Probert are perfect for middle school.
Probert also points out that the word broomstick was used in the mid-18th century in several contexts to mean ‘something ersatz, or lacking the authority its true equivalent might possess.’
Probert, R. Marriage Law and Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century: A Reassessment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009) A 1774 usage in the Westminster Magazine also describes an elopement.
In District 3, Leolga Wright defeated challenger Dana Probert, 349-92, for a five-year term.