Glocester

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A town in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States.
  2. 2
    Obsolete spelling of Gloucester. alt-of, obsolete

    "[A]s vve pact along, / Vpon the giddy footing of the hatches: / Me thought that Gloceſter ſtumbled, and in ſtumbling, / Stroke me that thought to ſtay him ouer board, / Into the tumbling billovves of the maine."

Etymology

Variant of Gloucester. The town was named after Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester.

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