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Chesterfield

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Any of a number of settlements:; A market town and borough in Derbyshire, England.
  2. 2
    Any of a number of settlements:; A hamlet in Wall parish, Lichfield district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK1005)
  3. 3
    Any of a number of settlements:; A rural municipality in west Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Chesterfield No. 261.
  4. 4
    Any of a number of settlements:; A number of places in the United States:; A village in the town of Montville, New London County, Connecticut.
  5. 5
    Any of a number of settlements:; A number of places in the United States:; A ghost town and historic district in Caribou County, Idaho.
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  1. 6
    Any of a number of settlements:; A number of places in the United States:; A village and township in Macoupin County, Illinois.
  2. 7
    Any of a number of settlements:; A number of places in the United States:; A town in Union Township, Madison County and Salem Township, Delaware County, Indiana.
  3. 8
    Any of a number of settlements:; A number of places in the United States:; A town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
  4. 9
    Any of a number of settlements:; A number of places in the United States:; A township and unincorporated community therein, in Macomb County, Michigan.
  5. 10
    Any of a number of settlements:; A number of places in the United States:; A city in St. Louis County, Missouri.
  6. 11
    Any of a number of settlements:; A number of places in the United States:; A town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire.
  7. 12
    Any of a number of settlements:; A number of places in the United States:; A township and unincorporated community therein, in Burlington County, New Jersey.
  8. 13
    Any of a number of settlements:; A number of places in the United States:; A town in Essex County, New York.
  9. 14
    Any of a number of settlements:; A number of places in the United States:; A township in Fulton County, Ohio.
  10. 15
    Any of a number of settlements:; A number of places in the United States:; A town, the county seat of Chesterfield County, South Carolina.
  11. 16
    Any of a number of settlements:; A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Henderson County, Tennessee.
  12. 17
    Any of a number of settlements:; A number of places in the United States:; A neighbourhood of West Valley City, Salt Lake County, Utah.
  13. 18
    Any of a number of settlements:; A number of places in the United States:; Ellipsis of Chesterfield County. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Noun
  1. 1
    A couch, sofa, or love seat with padded arms and back of the same height, often curved outward at the top.
  2. 2
    An extremely polite person. dated

    "The White House attendants are Chesterfields of politeness, and the visitor must be aggressive and persistent indeed who is not kept within proper limits without having his sensibilities wounded."

  3. 3
    a fitted overcoat with a velvet collar wordnet
  4. 4
    Any couch or sofa. California, Canada, dated
  5. 5
    an overstuffed davenport with upright armrests wordnet

Etymology

In reference to Lord Chesterfield, author of Principles of Politeness and of Knowing the World, 1786.

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