Gillette

• Gillet, Gillett

Alternative form of Gillett.

• Razor brand: invented by American businessman King C. Gillette.

Gillette (countable and uncountable, plural Gillettes)

1. A surname, variant of Gillett.
2. A placename
   1. A ghost town in Teller County, Colorado, United States.
   2. An unincorporated community in Manatee County, Florida, United States.
   3. An unincorporated community in Long Hill, Morris County, New Jersey, United States.
   4. A city, the county seat of Campbell County, Wyoming, United States.
      • 1979, United States Department of Commerce, “Jobs Through Economic Development”, in Boomtown Problems:

        In those 18 years, Gillette, a small town in northeastern Wyoming, has changed from a group of houses and a railroad depot servicing a ranching and farming community to a mining boomtown, growing at a rate of 15 to 20 percent a year.

      • 2011, Anne Marie Chaker, “Should Junk Food Be Sold In Schools?”, in School Diet and Exercise Programs May Go Too Far, pages 70–1:

        Gillette is a dusty, bustling coal-mining center in north-eastern Wyoming, bisected by a railroad operated by Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., which delivers coal to such cities as Chicago and Centralia, Wash.

      • 2014, Monica Moses, “American Craft”, in Creative Outliers, page 6:

        By one estimate, there are as many full-time craft artists in the United States as there are people in the town of Gillette, Wyoming. Never heard of Gillette? Well, no wonder; like the universe of craft artists, it has a relatively small population.

3. A brand of razor blade
   • 2005, Dan Gerber, A Voice from the River, page 22:

     In the men's room he watched a man about his own age pathetically trying to shave a five-day beard with a rusty Gillette razor he had probably found in a trash bin.

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:Gillette.

All descendants below have become generic for any razor, regardless of brand.

• → Czech: žiletka
• → Estonian: žilett
• → Indonesian: silet
  • → Ternate: silet
• → Polish: żyletka
• → Portuguese: gilete
• → Turkish: jilet

• IPA^(key): /ʒi.lɛt/

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Gillette ?

1. a surname