Saxon
/ˈsæksən/ noun C2- A member of an ancient West Germanic tribe that lived at the eastern North Sea coast and south of it.
- A native or inhabitant of Saxony, Germany.
- A kind of rapidly spinning ground-based firework.
Plural Saxons
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“My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of Surrey.”
Presently he returned, and behind him came a tall, gaunt woman bearing in her arms a very beautiful child, dark-eyed, golden-haired, a wonderful mixture of the Saxon and the Latin.
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