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Vidal   /vaɪdˈæl/   Listen
Vidal

noun
1.
United States writer (born in 1925).  Synonyms: Eugene Luther Vidal, Gore Vidal.






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"Vidal" Quotes from Famous Books



... dote, usually meaning "dowry;" but as the ecclesiastic Cordero was the legatee of Dona Maria de Roa (Montero y Vidal, i, p. 368), the word evidently means the bequest to him, perhaps for the pious purposes ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 39 of 55 • Various

... The aim was to elevate the Negro waiter and cook from the plane of menials to that of progressive business men. Then came Stephen Smith who amassed a large fortune as a lumber merchant and with him Whipper, Vidal and Purnell. Still and Bowers were reliable coal merchants, Adger a success in handling furniture, Bowser a well-known painter, and William H. ...
— A Century of Negro Migration • Carter G. Woodson

... conceptions, Bakunin described himself, in common with his Federalist comrades of the International (Cesar De Paepe, James Guillaume Schwitzguebel), a "Collectivist Anarchist''—not in the sense of Vidal and Pecqueur in the 'forties, or of their modern Social-Democratic followers, but to express a state of things in which all necessaries for production are owned in common by the Labour groups and the free ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia



Words linked to "Vidal" :   Gore Vidal, writer, author



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