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Packard

//ˈpækɚd// name

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A former brand of automobile (often associated with wealth and luxury in the 1920s through 1940s).

    "He finally forced himself to stick out his thumb when a white Packard with midnight blue trim rounded the bend."

Etymology

Genealogy websites offer three or four hypotheses about the surname; none is confirmed. (Ideas include possible cognation with packer or with Pickard; evidence for or against is not presented.) The automotive brand is from the surname, via the brothers James Ward Packard and William Doud Packard.

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