Dix
[di:s]
Definition
(noun.) United States social reformer who pioneered in the reform of prisons and in the treatment of the mentally ill; superintended women army nurses during the American Civil War (1802-1887).
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Examples
- Et Mademoiselle Lucy est coquette comme dix Parisiennes, he answered. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- After a while we took it as a matter of course that the head of a company was an administrative dummy, with a dependence on unofficial power similar to that of Governor Dix on Boss Murphy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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