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- adjective Somewhat
famous
Etymologies
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Examples
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Karna Maffait for the Wall Street Journal Antico Caffè Spinnato Shortly after I pull into Cerda, a small Sicilian town made semifamous by its yearly artichoke festival, Antonio Cappadonia hands me a brioche mounded with two flavors of gelato—enough to give it the size and heft of a softball.
In Search Of The Perfect Gelato Joe Ray 2011
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He calls himself a "storyteller" and specializes in semi-improvised autobiographical monologues of the kind that made Spalding Gray semifamous.
The Technogeek's Lament Terry Teachout 2011
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The presence of the famous and semifamous on the front lines isn't all bad, of course.
Occupy Wall Street Has a Famous Problem David Weidner 2011
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Companies just like to give product away to semifamous people—it's their prerogative.
Inside the Pre-Emmy Parties: Sponsors Marshall Heyman 2011
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Compared to gorgeous, semifamous Brendan, our Youth at Risk kid looked like the biggest delinquent who ever lived.
Every little thing in the world Nina de Gramont 2010
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Compared to gorgeous, semifamous Brendan, our Youth at Risk kid looked like the biggest delinquent who ever lived.
Every little thing in the world Nina de Gramont 2010
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No question, my mother would have sent him to a good psychologist if Dad wasn't already a shrink himself, a semifamous shrink, in fact: Dr. William T. Friedrich.
'Pharmakon' 2008
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The only thing we can do is accept that racism and homophobia exist and combat them institutionally, rather than playing the schoolmarm with semifamous people.
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“A happening place for the idle rich and semifamous.”
A Breath Away Etherington, Wendy 2007
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I ignored a pair of girls coming in the opposite direction who stared into my semifamous face, then started twittering and talking the moment I was past them.
INVITATION ONLY KATE BRIAN 2006
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