Gillette

plural Gillettes · alternative Gillet · alternative Gillett

1. countableuncountableA surname, variant of Gillett.
2. A placename
   1. countableuncountableA ghost town in Teller County, Colorado, United States.
   2. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Manatee County, Florida, United States.
   3. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Long Hill Township, Morris County, New Jersey, United States.
   4. countableuncountableA city, the county seat of Campbell County, Wyoming, United States.

      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.

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

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      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.

      1979, United States Department of Commerce, “Jobs Through Economic Development”, in Boomtown Problems

      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.

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

3. countableuncountableA brand of razor blade.

   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.

   2005, Dan Gerber, A Voice from the River, page 22