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  • proper noun A novel by Sir Walter Scott.
  • proper noun The hero of this novel.

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Examples

  • IVANHOE - A group of parents and community members from the Hendricks and Ivanhoe areas got together last month to talk about concerns for the Lincoln HI schools.

    Marshall Independent 2008

  • Ivanhoe is less like the Middle Ages than Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill, because in Scott's day less was known about the period.

    History and Literature 1924

  • The reader of "Ivanhoe" -- that finest romance of Sir Walter

    The True Citizen, How to Become One W. F. Markwick

  • Ivanhoe, which is increasing its stake in the Australian copper explorer Exco Resources Ltd. to 19.6%, made minor gains Thursday.

    Ivanhoe Mines and Cameco 2008

  • Instead, they must take on a role as one of the poem's characters through an interactive Web-based software application called Ivanhoe, which McGann and his colleagues developed in 2001.

    How The Internet Saved Literacy 2006

  • There was a time when I used to know a boy called Ivanhoe

    Masquerade Smith, Mark E., 1957 Mar. 5- 1998

  • A month, however, after he had entered college, he was known as Ivanhoe to all the class who knew anything about him at all; and, in the catalogue published in his sophomore year, he was registered quite curtly as Scott Brenton.

    The Brentons Anna Chapin Ray 1905

  • London-based Rio this week said it paid C$529.5 million to increase its holding to 48.5 percent in Ivanhoe, which is developing the Oyu Tolgoi copper project in Mongolia.

    unknown title 2011

  • Ivanhoe, which is currently focused on the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine in Mongolia, said

    Market News 2010

  • Ivanhoe, which is currently focused on the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine in Mongolia, said

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2010

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