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Sedgwick

Proper noun

Meaning

A surname.

A village and civil parish in South Lakeland district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD5187).

A locality in the City of Greater Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, named after Adam Sedgwick.

A number of places in the United States:
A town in Lawrence County, Arkansas.

A statutory town in Sedgwick County, Colorado, named for Fort Sedgwick.

A city in Harvey County and Sedgwick County, Kansas.

A town in Hancock County, Maine.

An unincorporated community in Linn County, Missouri, named after John Sedgwick.

An unincorporated community in the town of Sanborn, Ashland County, Wisconsin.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Sedgwick has managed to convert pedestrian critical skills and little discernible knowledge in history, philosophy, psychology, art or even pre-modern literature into a lucrative academic career. Camille Paglia

The doctrine of progression... was thus given twelve years ago by Professor Sedgwick. Charles Lyell

I think Stella Tennant is amazing. And then I really loved all those 60s society models, like Edie Sedgwick. Edie Campbell

My two style icons are Edie Sedgwick and Brigitte Bardot. Pixie Lott

Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time. Taylor Momsen

An observer named Andrew Crombie Ramsay at the meeting reported that Chambers "pushed his conclusions to a most unwarrantable length and got roughly handled on account of it by Buckland, De la Beche, Sedgwick, Murchison, and Lyell. Source: Internet

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