Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An unincorporated community of southeast New York on northeast Long Island on an inlet of Long Island Sound. Nearby is Sagamore Hill, Theodore Roosevelt's estate, which is now a national historic site.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An eating-house where oysters form the principal dish served.
- noun An oyster-shop.
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Examples
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When I come to, I were under ground about twenty foot, in a place they call Oyster Bay, treatin 'a Yankee that I never laid eyes on before and never expect to ag'in.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) Various 1887
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They were elbowed out of the way in the really significant drama of this family, which was an almost Homeric civil war between the two branches that erupted after Theodore's death; that is, the Oyster Bay branch, his own children, and the Hyde Park branch, the family of Franklin Roosevelt and Theodore's beloved niece Eleanor who was the daughter of his much-loved brother, Elliott.
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An old Indian woman with two long braids and colorful embroidered clothing lives in a tent by the shore and sells shellfish to all of Oyster Bay.
Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011
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As I listened to the various speakers, what struck me was the partnership that had been forged after Friends of the Bay, the Town of Oyster Bay and other governmental entities, stakeholder groups and the general public worked closely together to plan for the future of the bay.
Kyle Rabin: A Watershed Moment: Public Rallies to Protect New York's Oyster Bay/Cold Spring Harbor Estuary. Again. Kyle Rabin 2011
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Families contracted consumption, a pox, and polio, but no one else in Oyster Bay got typhoid this summer.
Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011
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At Oyster Bay, on Long Island, we pulled up to a stone mansion surrounded by exotic flowers dying in their pods and ripening apple trees overlooking the water.
Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011
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As I listened to the various speakers, what struck me was the partnership that had been forged after Friends of the Bay, the Town of Oyster Bay and other governmental entities, stakeholder groups and the general public worked closely together to plan for the future of the bay.
Kyle Rabin: A Watershed Moment: Public Rallies to Protect New York's Oyster Bay/Cold Spring Harbor Estuary. Again. Kyle Rabin 2011
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The waters of Oyster Bay -- home to the famous "Pine Island" oysters, farmed since 1887 by Frank M. Flower and Sons -- produce up to 90 percent of oysters and 40 percent of hard clams harvested in all of New York State.
Kyle Rabin: A Watershed Moment: Public Rallies to Protect New York's Oyster Bay/Cold Spring Harbor Estuary. Again. Kyle Rabin 2011
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The waters of Oyster Bay -- home to the famous "Pine Island" oysters, farmed since 1887 by Frank M. Flower and Sons -- produce up to 90 percent of oysters and 40 percent of hard clams harvested in all of New York State.
Kyle Rabin: A Watershed Moment: Public Rallies to Protect New York's Oyster Bay/Cold Spring Harbor Estuary. Again. Kyle Rabin 2011
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Conspiracy theories took hold: In the town of Oyster Bay, on Long Island, city counselors accused John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie of using their millions to corrupt “men and microbes” in order to create “causeless hysteria and . . . needless hardships.”
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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