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- proper noun An
English occupational surname for someone who madeplows /ploughs .
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Examples
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Jesberger's Plowright is portrayed as manipulative and conniving, but there isn't much to the role, while Danby's charge is to dissemble.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Man and Boy, Orson's Shadow Fern Siegel 2011
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It is 1960; Welles, the resident genius, has been a Hollywood pariah for nearly two decades; Olivier is about to leave his 20-year turbulent marriage to Leigh for the much-younger Plowright.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Man and Boy, Orson's Shadow Fern Siegel 2011
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Jesberger's Plowright is portrayed as manipulative and conniving, but there isn't much to the role, while Danby's charge is to dissemble.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Man and Boy, Orson's Shadow Fern Siegel 2011
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It is 1960; Welles, the resident genius, has been a Hollywood pariah for nearly two decades; Olivier is about to leave his 20-year turbulent marriage to Leigh for the much-younger Plowright.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Man and Boy, Orson's Shadow Fern Siegel 2011
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Jesberger's Plowright is portrayed as manipulative and conniving, but there isn't much to the role, while Danby's charge is to dissemble.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Man and Boy, Orson's Shadow Fern Siegel 2011
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It is 1960; Welles, the resident genius, has been a Hollywood pariah for nearly two decades; Olivier is about to leave his 20-year turbulent marriage to Leigh for the much-younger Plowright.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Man and Boy, Orson's Shadow Fern Siegel 2011
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It is 1960; Welles, the resident genius, has been a Hollywood pariah for nearly two decades; Olivier is about to leave his 20-year turbulent marriage to Leigh for the much-younger Plowright.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Man and Boy, Orson's Shadow Fern Siegel 2011
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We then watched Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, starring Dame Joan Plowright (she was once married to Sir Laurence Olivier) as a widow who moves into a London hotel because she wants to regain control of her life and no longer wants to be a burden to (or continually observed by) her daughter.
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Jesberger's Plowright is portrayed as manipulative and conniving, but there isn't much to the role, while Danby's charge is to dissemble.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Man and Boy, Orson's Shadow Fern Siegel 2011
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Jesberger's Plowright is portrayed as manipulative and conniving, but there isn't much to the role, while Danby's charge is to dissemble.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Man and Boy, Orson's Shadow Fern Siegel 2011
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