Addams
Americannoun
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Charles (Samuel), 1912–88, U.S. cartoonist.
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Jane, 1860–1935, U.S. social worker and writer: Nobel Peace Prize 1931.
noun
Example Sentences
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“You kinda have this Wednesday Addams vibe going on.”
From Los Angeles Times
You kinda have this Wednesday Addams vibe going on.”
From Los Angeles Times
This account recalls a number of telling details of that era, when Jane Addams taught citizenship at Chicago’s Hull House, Lillian Wald dispatched visiting nurses from New York’s Henry Street Settlement and Simkhovitch, in 1902, founded and led New York’s Greenwich House.
He is bearded and buff; she is a porcelain doll with Wednesday Addams hair and skin.
From Los Angeles Times
Frankie Addams “belonged to no club and was a member of nothing in the world.”
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