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Hurst

[hurst]
–noun
1. Fannie, 1889–1968, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
2. a city in N Texas. 31,420.
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Hurst   (hûrst)   
A city of northeast Texas, an industrial and residential suburb of Fort Worth. Population: 38,200.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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hurst 
"hillock" (especially a sandy one), also "grove, wooded eminence," from O.E. hyrst, from P.Gmc. *khurstiz (cf. M.Du. horst "underwood," Ger. Horst "thicket, shrubbery"). Common in place names (cf. Amherst).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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