Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A slang name for a watchman under the old. patrol system in England: given, it is said, because Charles I. in 1640 extended and improved the patrol system of London.
- noun A small pointed beard such as that worn by Charles I. of England and by men of his time; hence the name. It extended from the under-lip and ended in a point just below the chin.
- noun The fox.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A
diminutive of the malegiven name Charles . - proper noun A diminutive of the female names
Charlotte andCharlene .
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Examples
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What is not accomplished in Charley's statement is captured in fuller measure in the clearest philosophical statement of determinism in the early stories.
“The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction 2010
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Rihanna and Ashley Tisdale stay hip (and comfy) in Charley 5.0 leggings.
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But that night a new way seemed to open to me, and in my eagerness I awoke Charley from a sound sleep.
DEMETRIOS CONTOS 2010
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CBS broke some news Sunday in Charley Casserly saying New England's Tom Brady has three broken ribs.
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Charley is a reminder of the boy's lost innocence.
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Wherefore, when I speak harshly of one of your own kind, I know you will not take it amiss; and when I speak high of one of my father's people, you will not take it upon you to say, 'Sitka Charley is Siwash, and there is a crooked light in his eyes and small honor to his tongue.'
GRIT OF WOMEN 2010
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Charley is leading the party in a hazardous journey through "the dismal vastness of the Northland."
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At a time where patriotism - and, by extension, morality - are equated with a blind deference to the State, Charley is a living reassurance that decency and a sense of what liberty really means are not altogether dead in the late American republic.
Charley Reese Writes for the Last Time « Antiwar.com Blog 2008
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Charley is convinced his next-door neighbor (a perfect Chris Sarandon) is a vampire, but nobody believes him.
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Charley is strong and hearty, making great progress in music; his master says he never met but with one child equal to him; yet (is it not provoking?) he himself hates it, and it is only by the word of command that he ever sits down to the piano.
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