Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A town of southwest Scotland west of Glasgow. It was famous as a textile center in the 1800s for its colorful patterned shawls.
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- proper noun A town in the Renfrewshire, Scotland
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a soft wool fabric with a colorful swirled pattern of curved shapes
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Examples
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One thing that I expect to be controversial is that you refer to Paisley as a "turd."
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Brad Paisley is my favorite but I like alot of them.
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For me, had I stayed in Paisley, I would have become another one of the high street solicitors, heading down to the Sheriff Court every other day to defend someone accused of breach of the peace and the like, and becoming increasingly frustrated with Land Registry transactions.
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Brad Paisley is my favorite but I like alot of them.
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Paisley is a geriatric old fool, a bigot and an Ulster nationalist, his opinion is completely immaterial.
(Mis)Interpreting Cameron O'Neill 2008
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Despite his Italian name, the Nutini family lived in Paisley, Scotland for at least four generations.
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As such, Paisley is more likely to make you smile (he has “The Fishing Song” in his repertoire, after all).
MySpace or YourPlace? « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2007
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At the school in Paisley there are four units linked to a back office server.
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The cafeteria at Todholm Primary School, in Paisley, Scotland, has gone cashless and students are buying lunches by holding their hands over a palm-vein recognition unit produced by Glasgow-based Yarg Biometrics.
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Andrew Vaughan, AP (From left) Cassie Johnson, Jamie Johnson, Jessica Schultz and Maureen Brunt won the silver medal at the 2005 women's curling worlds in Paisley, Scotland.
USATODAY.com - U.S. Olympian Jamie Johnson out to show that curling rocks 2006
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