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Gillette   /dʒɪlˈɛt/   Listen
Gillette

noun
1.
United States inventor and manufacturer who developed the safety razor (1855-1932).  Synonym: King Camp Gilette.






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"Gillette" Quotes from Famous Books



... which it lies about forty miles to the westward. The northern half of these mountains is known as the Black Range, and was the center of considerable mining excitement a year and a half ago. It is there that the Ivanhoe is located, of which Colonel Gillette was manager, and in which Robert Ingersoll and Senator Plumb, of Kansas, were interested, much to the disadvantage of the former. A new company has been organized, however, with Colonel Ingersoll as president, and the reopening of work on the Ivanhoe will ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 360, November 25, 1882 • Various

... Oh! I have felt that I am a painter! Until to-day I have had doubts, but now I believe in myself! There is the making of a great man in me! Never mind, Gillette, we shall be rich and happy! There is gold at the ...
— The Unknown Masterpiece - 1845 • Honore De Balzac



Words linked to "Gillette" :   artificer, inventor, industrialist, discoverer, King Camp Gilette



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