Ackroyd

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Middle English.

    "Above left, Kathryn Bigelow with the cinemaphotographer Barry Ackroyd on the set of “The Hurt Locker."

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"Above left, Kathryn Bigelow with the cinemaphotographer Barry Ackroyd on the set of “The Hurt Locker."

Etymology

Topographic surname, from Middle English ake (“oak”) + royd (“clearing”).

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