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noun

Don n.

Sir; Mr; Signior; a title in Spain, formerly given to noblemen and gentlemen only, but now common to all classes. "Don is used in Italy, though not so much as in Spain. France talks of Dom Calmet, England of Dan Lydgate."

A grand personage, or one making pretension to consequence; especially, the head of a college, or one of the fellows at the English universities. (Univ. Cant) "The great dons of wit."

verb

Don v. t. (past & past part. donned; pres. part. donning) To put on; to dress in; to invest one's self with. "Should I don this robe and trouble you." "At night, or in the rain, He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn."

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"Don" Quotes from Famous Books

... come to Etretat? It is charming there. We don't do anything but eat and drink and talk scandal—Oh, yes! Yamada sometimes gives us ...

— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... entry at the Middle Temple bears date April 23, 1747. His youthful impressions of England and its capital are recorded in graceful language in his letters to those friends whom he never lost, but by death; one passage is as applicable to the present as to the past. "I don't find that genius, the 'rath primrose which forsaken dies,' is patronized by any of the nobility, so that writers of the first talents are left to the capricious ...

— The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 • Various

... Abdi Pasha, and I will not hurt you if you go away. I would rather see you fall in battle fighting against the Giaours, for you deserve to have a glorious name; but don't ask me for this banner any more, for if you come a step nearer I will run you through the body with ...

— Halil the Pedlar - A Tale of Old Stambul • Mr Jkai

... "Don't want to sink her," the supercargo retorted. "She's a nice little schooner. I'd rather capture her. Maybe we can use her in our business, Scraggsy," and he continued to shower the enemy with high bursting shrapnel. When the two vessels were less than two miles apart the one-pounders ...

— Captain Scraggs - or, The Green-Pea Pirates • Peter B. Kyne

... for turning me completely out of their thoughts and society, that I began an attack on Hazlewood, from which it was impossible for him, in common civility, to escape. He insensibly became warm in his defence—I assure you, Matilda, he is a very clever, as well as a very handsome young man, and I don't think I ever remember having seen him to the same advantage—when, behold, in the midst of our lively conversation, a very soft sigh from Miss Lucy reached my not ungratified ears. I was greatly too generous ...

— Guy Mannering • Sir Walter Scott

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