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Noun: Shaw  sho
  1. British playwright (born in Ireland); founder of the Fabian Society (1856-1950)
    - G. B. Shaw, George Bernard Shaw
     
  2. United States physician and suffragist (1847-1919)
    - Anna Howard Shaw
     
  3. United States clarinettist and leader of a swing band (1910-2004)
    - Artie Shaw, Arthur Jacob Arshawsky
     
  4. United States humorist who wrote about rural life (1818-1885)
    - Henry Wheeler Shaw, Josh Billings

Sounds like: shore, sure

Type of: author, bandleader, clarinetist [N. Amer], clarinettist [Brit], doc [informal], doctor, Dr., dramatist, humorist, MD, medico [informal], physician, playwright, suffragist, writer

Encyclopedia: Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge