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blount
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What does blount mean?
proper noun
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Georgia.
- A township in Vermilion County, Illinois.
More meanings (2)
proper noun
- A town in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
- Ellipsis of Blount County.
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With him was his brother-in-law, lately come from Canada, a big and rather boisterous young gentleman-farmer, with a yellow beard, by name James Blount.
They were Sir Waiter Kirtham Blount, Bart., Sir Samuel Baldwin and Sir Timothy Baldwin, Knights, Thomas Foley and Philip Foley, Esquires, and six other gentlemen.
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Cecil, or to give him his real name, Arthur Blount, was also an excellent musician, and his setting of The Better Land is to my mind a beautiful one.
After which, Sir Thomas Blount, the Steward of the Household, nearly finished him, by coming forward and breaking his white wand—which was a ceremony only performed at a King’s death.