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mainwaring
/ˈmeɪnˌwɛɹɪŋ/
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What does mainwaring mean?
proper noun
- A surname from Norman.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈmeɪnˌwɛɹɪŋ/
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This was Sir Arthur Mainwaring, member of a Cheshire family of good repute but of no great wealth.
To be born the son of a Middlemarch manufacturer, and inevitable heir to nothing in particular, while such men as Mainwaring and Vyan—certainly life was a poor business, when a spirited young fellow, with a good appetite for the best of everything, had so poor an outlook.