Cecil
Americannoun
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(Edgar Algernon) Robert 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, 1864–1958, British statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1937.
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Robert 1st Earl of Salisburyand1st Viscount Cecil of Cranborne, 1563–1612, British statesman (son of William Cecil).
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Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-. Salisbury.
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William 1st Baron Burghley or Burleigh, 1520–98, British statesman: adviser to Elizabeth I.
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a male given name: from a Latin word meaning “blind.”
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Lord David. 1902–86, English literary critic and biographer
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Robert. See (3rd Marquess of) Salisbury 2
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William. See (William Cecil) Burghley
Example Sentences
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Millersburg will be a hotbed of drama—and not all of it on the stage, where Richard will direct his mother’s funeral with the understatement of Cecil B. DeMille.
Occidental is among the oldest continually operating studios in Hollywood, used by pioneering filmmakers Cecil B. DeMille, D.W.
From Los Angeles Times
While her better-known contemporaries, like Cecil B. DeMille and D.W.
Mary Pickford became the most famous face in the world and William and his family quickly followed her west where, in 1914, his little brother Cecil directed the town’s first full-length movie, “The Squaw Man.”
From Los Angeles Times
In a fitting irony, “The Squaw Man” itself doesn’t count because Cecil imagined it took place on the plains.
From Los Angeles Times
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