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A New Dicti nary of Eponyms

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Eponyms

Mort n S. Freeman

Oxford University Press

New York Oxford

A New Dictionary of

Oxford University Press

Oxford New York

Athens Auckland Bangkok Bogota Bombay

Calcutta Cape Town Dar es Salaam Delhi

Florence Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi

Kuala Lumpur Madras Madrid Melbourne

Mexico City Nairobi Paris Singapore

Taipei Tokyo Toronto Warsaw

and associated companies i

Berlin Ibadan

First published in 1997 by Oxford University Press,

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Freeman, Morton S.

A new dictionary of eponyms / Morton S. Freeman.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p.).

ISBN 0-19-509354-2 (alk. paper)

1. English language—Eponyms—Dictionaries. 2. Names, Personal-

Dictionaries. 3. Biography—Dictionaries. I. Title.

PE1596.F73 1997

423':1—dc20

96-32608

ISBN 0-19-509354-2 (Pbk.)

987654321

Printed in the United States of America