cognomen

Example Sentences

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And people have continued to find it risibly apposite ever since - especially in conjunction with the equally commonplace cognomen, Will.

From BBC • Oct. 3, 2015

Retief Goosen - “Goose” Our second cognomen derived from a last name, which should rank it lower on the list.

From Golf Digest • Oct. 16, 2013

Its most evocative cognomen is The Porchcrawler—one unhyphenated word, with the crunch of consonants enhancing its cinematic imagery.

From Slate • Jul. 6, 2012

It is an odd inversion of status for these masterful men, a class cognomen left over from the days when jockeys were servants of the sporting aristocracy.

From Time Magazine Archive

A veteran of the prairie whose civilized appellation was shrouded by his western cognomen, Kamusi was one of the parson's right-hand men.

From The Warden of the Plains and Other Stories of Life in the Canadian North-west by Maclean, John