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WESTON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States photographer(1886-1958)
Synonyms:
Edward Weston; Weston
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
lensman; photographer (someone who takes photographs professionally)
Context examples:
I already owe Weston something over a thousand, so how can a few odd hundreds affect it?
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For a few days, every morning visit in Highbury included some mention of the handsome letter Mrs. Weston had received.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The measuring was a most solemn and serious function, though it was nothing to the trying-on two days later, when my uncle stood by in an agony of apprehension as each garment was adjusted, he and Weston arguing over every seam and lapel and skirt until I was dizzy with turning round in front of them.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We talked it all over with Mr. Weston last night.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Such a friend as Mrs. Weston was out of the question.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
They are to be put into Mr. Weston's stable, papa.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
What a pity it is that Mr. Weston ever thought of her!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
There was a strange rumour in Highbury of all the little Perrys being seen with a slice of Mrs. Weston's wedding-cake in their hands: but Mr. Woodhouse would never believe it.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Mr. Weston was a native of Highbury, and born of a respectable family, which for the last two or three generations had been rising into gentility and property.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
If I had not promoted Mr. Weston's visits here, and given many little encouragements, and smoothed many little matters, it might not have come to any thing after all.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
