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Hesperus

[hes-per-uhs] / ˈhɛs pər əs /
NOUN
evening star
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The housing association installed the locks, designed to improve security in the block on Hesperus Crossway following a Police Scotland recommendation, in November last year.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2025

Their own party looks like the wreck of the Hesperus.

From Fox News • Feb. 4, 2020

“We were concerned that some of the writers would not be comfortable to be associated with Hesperus once we published this book, but we’re politically neutral,” a rep from the publisher told the newspaper.

From Washington Post • Jul. 12, 2016

As for me, I loved the swashbuckling sound of "Wreck of the Hesperus", but years passed before I met the poem.

From The Guardian • Aug. 16, 2010

However, she had already made a false start with Dante’s Inferno and had to abandon reading it partway through, and she did not want to repeat this misstep with the Hesperus.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood