Faxon

name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname. countable, uncountable

    "Faxon's obvious course was to struggle through the drifts to the village, and there rout out a sleigh to convey him to Weymore; but what if, on his arrival at Mrs. Culme's, no one remembered to ask him what this devotion to duty had cost?"

  2. 2
    An unincorporated community in Calloway County, Kentucky, United States. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A town in Comanche County, Oklahoma, United States. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A census-designated place in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, United States. countable, uncountable

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"Faxon's obvious course was to struggle through the drifts to the village, and there rout out a sleigh to convey him to Weymore; but what if, on his arrival at Mrs. Culme's, no one remembered to ask him what this devotion to duty had cost?"

Etymology

Unexplained.

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