Meaning of Gillette | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname, variant of Gillett.
   countable, uncountable
2. A placename
   countable, uncountable
3. A ghost town in Teller County, Colorado, United States.
   countable, uncountable
4. An unincorporated community in Manatee County, Florida, United States.
   countable, uncountable
5. An unincorporated community in Long Hill, Morris County, New Jersey, United States.
   countable, uncountable
6. A city, the county seat of Campbell County, Wyoming, United States.
   countable, uncountable
7. A brand of razor blade
   countable, uncountable

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“In those 18 years, Gillette, a small town in northeastern Wyoming, has changed from a group of houses and a railroad depot servicing a ranching and farming community to a mining boomtown, growing at a rate of 15 to 20 percent a year.”

“Gillette is a dusty, bustling coal-mining center in north-eastern Wyoming, bisected by a railroad operated by Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., which delivers coal to such cities as Chicago and Centralia, Wash.”

“By one estimate, there are as many full-time craft artists in the United States as there are people in the town of Gillette, Wyoming. Never heard of Gillette? Well, no wonder; like the universe of craft artists, it has a relatively small population.”

“In the men's room he watched a man about his own age pathetically trying to shave a five-day beard with a rusty Gillette razor he had probably found in a trash bin.”

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