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- adjective Attributive form of
proper noun , noun.
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Examples
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Nonetheless, notwithstanding that Canadians ascribe patriotism to each other often enough and claim “true patriot love” in the national anthem, capital-P proper-noun “Patriots” refers most naturally to Americans in Canadian ears.
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Nonetheless, notwithstanding that Canadians ascribe patriotism to each other often enough and claim “true patriot love” in the national anthem, capital-P proper-noun “Patriots” refers most naturally to Americans in Canadian ears.
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His beef was so good that in the early 1980s Alice Waters made it the first proper-noun meat on the menu at her Berkeley restaurant, Chez Panisse.
Guilty Carnivore 2008
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His beef was so good that in the early 1980s Alice Waters made it the first proper-noun meat on the menu at her Berkeley restaurant, Chez Panisse.
Guilty Carnivore 2008
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His beef was so good that in the early 1980s Alice Waters made it the first proper-noun meat on the menu at her Berkeley restaurant, Chez Panisse.
Guilty Carnivore 2008
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For comets, capitalize only the proper-noun element of the name: Halley’s comet.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002
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For comets, capitalize only the proper-noun element of the name: Halley’s comet.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002
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THE CRADLE"IT WAS easily big enough to have acquired proper-noun status in their minds'stood in the center of a square five times larger than the one where they had come upon the blasted statue, and when she got a really good look at it, Susannah realized how old and gray and fundamentally grungy the rest of Lud really was.
The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991
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