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Graves

1

[grahv, grav]

noun

  1. a wine-growing district in Gironde department, in SW France.

  2. a dry, red or white table wine produced in this region.



Graves

2

[greyvz]

noun

  1. Morris, 1910–2001, U.S. painter.

  2. Robert (Ranke) 1895–1985, English poet, novelist, and critic.

Graves

1

/ ɡɑː /

noun

  1. (sometimes not capital) a white or red wine from the district around Bordeaux, France

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Graves

2

/ ɡɪ /

noun

  1. Robert ( Ranke ). 1895–1985, English poet, novelist, and critic, whose works include his World War I autobiography, Goodbye to All That (1929), and the historical novels I, Claudius (1934) and Claudius the God (1934)

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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According to the Mayo Clinic, symptoms of Graves’ disease can include “feeling nervous or irritable,” slight tremors of the hands or fingers, weight loss, menstrual changes and heart palpitations.

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When Melvin Graves returned from fighting in Vietnam, he got no parade, he said, so this was as close as he would come to one.

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Mr Graves said the English saw it as an ethnic curiosity, even joking about it.

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Ms Graves said this was "to ensure she knows her real home, so that if she is scared she knows where to come where she is safe".

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Alan Graves, the Reform UK leader of Derbyshire County Council, said he would back the idea of visitors being charged "up to £1 just to go there".

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