Glassie
- proper noun
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Glassie
- Many families in the region share the surname Glassie.
- Henry Glassie
Examples
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Henry Glassie is known for his influential work in folklore studies.
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The folklorist Henry Glassie, in his monumental study of a small community in Northern Ireland, has reflected on the ways in which history can be seen as constituting the distinctive identity of a region.
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With humor and insight, John Glassie returns.
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The person who is in place, located," Glassie concludes, "understands two histories.
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Glassie's "evolutionary" history, his "continuity," his "sun and storm of every day."
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The outstanding work for design and intention is Henry Glassie's Folk Housing in Middle Virginia (1975).
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This history is implicit and evolutionary, to use Glassie's phrasing, not a matter of great events and persons.
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In those other regions, a large measure of identity derives most powerfully from a few big things that have happened: Glassie's "separate works of art," "great personages," and "immortal issues."
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Glassie's description of how history defines geography helps clarify the different ways in which regional identity has been and continues to be constructed and proclaimed in the Midwest as opposed to other regions of the country.
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But stories told in one moment to a regular audience—family, neighbors, friends—work as contexts for other stories, as Henry Glassie (1982, 1995) and Ray Cashman (2011) have argued.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
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A family name that some people have
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A family name used by some people
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A family name used as a last name
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A last name used by members of a family
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A family name used as a last name
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A last name that some people have
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A family name that people use as their last name
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A last name used by some people
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A family name used by people to show family connection
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A family name used as a last name
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A family name or first name used by people in English-speaking countries
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A family or given name used by people
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A family name used by some people
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A family name that some people have
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A last name that some people have
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A family name people use as their last name
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A family name used by some people
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A family name that some people have
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A family name often found in Scotland
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A family name some people have
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A family name used by some people
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A last name used by some people
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A last name used by some people
A family name that some people have
A name that people use as their last name
A family name used by some people
A family name used by some people
A family name or nickname for a person
Surface Forms
Etymology
Glassie is a family name you can remember by thinking of the common word glass, because many surnames began from a job or an object; imagine an ancestor who made or sold glass. That's why Glassie works as a surname and the picture of glass helps you recall it.