Prendergast

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A suburb of Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9516). countable, uncountable

Example

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"Prendergast was like a raging devil, and he picked the soldiers up as if they had been children and threw them overboard alive or dead."

Etymology

From the Irish and Welsh surname, perhaps derived from a now lost settlement in Flanders called Brontegeest. This surname was then brought to England through the Norman Conquest.

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