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Dion
[dahy-on,, -uh n] /ˈdaɪ ɒn,, -ən/ (Show IPA), 1822–90, Irish playwright and actor, in the U.S. after 1853.
Historical Examples
Out of the Hurly-Burly Charles Heber Clark
True and Other Stories George Parsons Lathrop
A Treatise Upon the Law of Copyright in the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the Crown, E. J. MacGillivray
The Galaxy Various
The New Gresham Encyclopedia Various
The Best of the World’s Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) – America – I Various
Charles Frohman: Manager and Man Isaac Frederick Marcosson and Daniel Frohman
The Letters of Charles Dickens Charles Dickens
Memoirs Charles Godfrey Leland
The Galaxy Various
noun
Dion (ˈdaɪɒn). real name Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot 1822–90, Irish dramatist and actor. His plays include London Assurance (1841), The Octoroon (1859), and The Shaughran (1874)
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