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- proper noun A patronymic
surname .
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Eastern Michigan quarterback Alex Gillet scored on a 31-yard run.
Virginia 48, Eastern Michigan 21: Three up, three down Steve Yanda 2010
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The Australian female cyclist Amy Gillet was killed and five of her team-mates injured after a car ran into them as they trained for a road race in Germany in 2005.
The Australian road cyclist Carly Hibberd killed after road accident 2011
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Further, O'Hara had a way with him – the very way that was feared by Gillet in distant Paris.
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This modern staging of Cinderella, as told in Jules Massenet's four-act opera, features Anne-Catherine Gillet, Rinat Shaham, Sophie Marilley and Frédéric Antoun in the lead roles, with musical direction by Alain Altinoglu and Samuel Jean.
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Nor would it have happened had he not had a fond mother and an iron uncle, and had he not received a letter from Gillet Bellamy.
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"I have just seen a copy of the Billow," Gillet wrote from Paris.
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Belgian soprano Anne-Catherine Gillet certainly doesn't play safe on her first solo disc.
Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915; Berlioz: Les Nuits d'Eté; Britten: Les Illuminations – review 2011
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It's the least convincing of her three performances, for in both Samuel Barber's rapt, nostalgia-drenched setting of James Agee's text in Knoxville: Summer of 1915, and in Britten's treatment of Rimbaud in Les Illuminations, Gillet shows exactly why she has become such a favourite in French and Belgian opera houses.
Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915; Berlioz: Les Nuits d'Eté; Britten: Les Illuminations – review 2011
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Les Nuits d'Eté is generally regarded as the province of mezzo sopranos, and in an interview included in the sleeve notes Gillet admits that taking on Berlioz's great song-cycle was a bit of a challenge.
Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915; Berlioz: Les Nuits d'Eté; Britten: Les Illuminations – review 2011
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Ariel Jacobs's side were always in control with Guillaume Gillet giving them the half-time lead with his 23rd-minute goal and Matías Suárez and Tom de Sutter adding to their tally after the break.
PSV Eindhoven draw comfort from Europa League qualification 2011
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