Gramercy
- proper noun
- /ˈɡræmərsi/
- The historic buildings surrounding Gramercy Park are a favorite backdrop for photographers.
- Gramercy Park
Examples
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Turning onto Gramercy Park, he found himself thinking about his friend Eric Sandstrom... and felt more than a twinge of envy.
Fiction book (1998) -
I'm late for my manager's meeting at Gramercy Park.
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Two gentlemen at the Gramercy Park Hotel.
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To have the key to Gramercy Park.
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The two men head up to Gramercy Park and stop in front of the Gramercy Park Hotel.
Fiction book (1990) -
We went to Gramercy's for lunch, all of us after the meeting.
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It's somewhere around Gramercy Park and the Flatiron Building.
Blog text (18) -
TIME CUT: DISSOLVE to Jacob and Jezzie sitting next to a large window overlooking Gramercy Park.
Fiction book (1990) -
Novak doesn't exist except for a P.O. Box in Maine... in care of one Nancy Brown of 28 Gramercy Park... where she was born and raised.
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Along Third Avenue, abruptly above Fourteenth Street, there appear six blocks or so of white brick apartment houses, built in the 1950s and 1960s on the edges of the Gramercy Park area; the people who live here are buyers for department stores, women who began in New York as secretaries and may or may not have become something more but kept at their jobs.
Academic text (1990)
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gramercy comes from an old phrase grand merci, which means 'great thanks' or 'many thanks', and people once said gramercy as a short way to give thanks. In the 1800s a landowner used that word as the name for his park, and today Gramercy is the name of the quiet Manhattan neighborhood around Gramercy Park.