Walpole

[ wawl-pohl, wol- ]

/ ˈwɔlˌpoʊl, ˈwɒl- /

noun

Horace, 4th Earl of Or·ford

[awr-ferd] /ˈɔr fərd/, Horatio Walpole,1717–97, English novelist and essayist (son of Sir Robert Walpole).

Sir Hugh Seymour,1884–1941, English novelist, born in New Zealand.

Sir Robert, 1st Earl of Or·ford

[awr-ferd] /ˈɔr fərd/,1676–1745, British statesman: prime minister 1715–17; 1721–42.

a city in E Massachusetts.

Example sentences from the Web for walpole

I even took a genre early-novels class and read Shelley, Walpole, and Poe.

A Kid and a King: ‘Chicago Fire’ Co-Creator Derek Haas on His Love of Stephen King |Derek Haas |November 14, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
The attorney before Walpole was on the case just six months, and the one before that was hired and fired on the same day.

Polygamist Courtroom Circus |Carol McKinley |July 29, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
Though the policy of Walpole had ruined Jacobitism, it long remained unconscious of its ruin.

History of the English People, Volume VII (of 8) |John Richard Green
It is the garb most likely to obscure and set backward even a Walpole or a Chesterfield in any impression of gentility.

The President |Alfred Henry Lewis

Early in life Walpole sneered at him for bringing into the House of Commons "the gestures and emotions of the stage."

History of the English People, Volume VII (of 8) |John Richard Green
Walpole, though not a man of literary habits, was the author of at least ten pamphlets, and retouched and corrected many more.

Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) |Thomas Babington Macaulay
Mrs. Johnstone and Mrs. Walpole are left to dispute the prize here.

Private Papers of William Wilberforce |William Wilberforce

British Dictionary definitions for walpole

Walpole

/ (ˈwɔːlˌpəʊl) /

noun

Horace, 4th Earl of Orford. 1717–97, British writer, noted for his letters and for his delight in the Gothic, as seen in his house Strawberry Hill and his novel The Castle of Otranto (1764)

Sir Hugh (Seymour). 1884–1941, British novelist, born in New Zealand: best known for The Herries Chronicle (1930–33), a sequence of historical novels set in the Lake District

Sir Robert, 1st Earl of Orford. 1676–1745, English Whig statesman. As first lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1721–42) he was effectively Britain's first prime minister

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