clarence

plural clarences

1. A kind of carriage popular in the 19th century; a four-wheeled horse-driven vehicle with a glass front and room for four passengers.

1. A ducal title which has been traditionally awarded to junior members of the English and British royal families

   Warwick. Richard, I will create thee Duke of Gloucester; And George, of Clarence; Warwick, as ourself, Shall do and undo as him pleaseth best. Richard. Let me be Duke of Clarence, George of Gloucester, For Gloucester's dukedom is too ominous.

   c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vi]

2. An English surname.
3. A male given name transferred from the surname.

   Got rather a silly name. Like a hotel. You know, the Royal Clarence. That's his name. Clarence."

   1973, Agatha Christie, Postern of Fate, page 221

   1 more example

   There is one of the novels of Miss Edgeworth - we forget which - in which a gentleman of the name of Harvey figures as a hero. Harvey! Only fancy John, Peter, or William Harvey as the hero of a novel! But Miss Edgeworth was too well acquaintanced with the philosophy of names to commit such a blunder: she made the individual Clarence Harvey, and the name has never to this day been objected to even among the female teens.

   1847 William Chambers, Robert Chambers, Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, W. Orr July-December 1847, page 61 ( "The Aristocracy of Names")

4. A placename given to towns in countries settled by the British.
   1. A locality in the City of Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia.
   2. A local government area in the Greater Hobart area of south-east Tasmania, Australia, named after the Duke of Clarence and a ship with that name; in full, the City of Clarence.
   3. A settlement in north Canterbury, New Zealand, near the mouth of the Clarence River.
   4. A community in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia.
   5. A community and former township in the city of Clarence-Rockland, eastern Ontario.
   6. An unincorporated community in Button Township, Ford County, Illinois.
   7. A city in Cedar County, Iowa.
   8. A township in Barton County, Kansas.
   9. A village in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.
   10. A township in Calhoun County, Michigan.
   11. A minor city in Shelby County, Missouri.
   12. A town and census-designated place therein, in Erie County, New York.
   13. A census-designated place in Snow Shoe Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania.
   14. A ghost town in the town of Spring Grove, Green County, Wisconsin.
5. A name given to several rivers, including one in France and others in countries settled by the British.
   1. A river in Pas-de-Calais department, Hauts-de-France, France, a tributary of the Lys.
   2. A river in the Northern Rivers region, New South Wales, Australia, which discharges into the Coral Sea, named after the Duke of Clarence,
   3. A river in north Canterbury, New Zealand, which flows into the Pacific Ocean at Clarence.