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betsy ross

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Ross

[raws, ros]
–noun
1. Betsy Gris⋅com [gris-kuhm] , 1752–1836, maker of the first U.S. flag.
2. Harold Wallace, 1892–1951, U.S. publisher and editor.
3. Sir James Clark, 1800–62, English navigator: explorer of the Arctic and the Antarctic.
4. his uncle, Sir John, 1777–1856, Scottish naval officer and arctic explorer.
5. John (Coowescoowe or Kooweskoowe), 1790–1866, Cherokee leader.
6. Nellie Tay⋅loe [tey-loh] , 1876–1977, U.S. politician and governor of Wyoming: first woman U.S. governor 1925–27.
7. Sir Ronald, 1857–1932, English physician: Nobel prize 1902.
8. a male given name.
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Ross, Betsy

A seamstress of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries who made flags in Philadelphia during the Revolutionary War. A widely accepted, but undocumented, story holds that she sewed the first American flag in the form of the Stars and Stripes.

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Ross (rôs), Sir Ronald. 1857-1932.

British physician. He won a 1902 Nobel Prize for proving that malaria is transmitted to humans by the bite of the mosquito.

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