Baillie
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- proper noun
- /ˈbeɪli/
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Baillie
- Edmond Tannatt took Elizabeth, and George Baillie, a Scottish merchant who moved from Charleston to Savannah, chose Jourdina.
- George Baillie
- Robert Baillie
Examples
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Robert Baillie's father and uncle were businessmen in Edinburgh.
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In the face of popular anger, James Wright smuggled the despised distributor out of town and into hiding on Robert Baillie's plantation in south Georgia, an act that was to cost Baillie his seat in the assembly.
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"We can immediately respond to the customer's request and make a change at any time in the engineering development process," Baillie said.
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Just promises that Candidate Baillie has the experience to make the "hard" decisions.
Blog text (26) -
By way of contrast, the twenty-one-year-old Robert Baillie needed a way out of financial difficulties.
Academic text (2007) -
When the Scottish historian and essayist Thomas Carlyle married Jane Baillie Welsh, many of their contemporaries considered it an error on both sides.
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Below this tier were four firms with access to London capital, all with Scottish connections: Read and Mossman, George Baillie and Company, Samuel Douglass and Company, and Inglis and Hall.
Academic text (2007) -
Robert Baillie is an author known for his contributions to Scottish literature.
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The renowned artist, Charles Baillie, exhibited his latest works in Edinburgh.
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After years of research, Dr. Sarah Baillie published her groundbreaking study on Scottish history.
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word Baillie comes from an old job name baillie, which meant 'bailiff' or 'local official' who helped run a town. So the surname probably started as a name for someone who had that job.