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 (är′dn), Elizabeth Originally Florence Nightingale Graham. 1884?-1966.
Canadian-born American businesswoman whose original beauty salon, founded in 1910, grew into an international cosmetics corporation.

Arden

, Forest of
A wooded area, formerly very extensive, of central England north of Stratford-upon-Avon. It provided the setting for Shakespeare's As You Like It.
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Arden

(ˈɑːdən)
n
(Placename) Forest of Arden a region of N Warwickshire, part of a former forest: scene of Shakespeare's As You Like It

Arden

(ˈɑːdən)
n
(Biography) John. (1930–2012) British dramatist and novelist. His plays include Serjeant Musgrave's Dance (1959) and The Workhouse Donkey (1963); novels include Silence Among the Weapons (1982): he often worked in collaboration with his wife Margaretta D'Arcy
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Ar•den

(ˈɑr dn)

n.
Forest of, a forest district in central England, in N Warwickshire.
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But if he ever was a butcher he was, nevertheless, an actor and a poet, "and when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style and make a speech."* How Shakespeare fared in this new work we do not know, but we may fancy him when work was done wandering along the pretty country lanes or losing himself in the forest of Arden, which lay not far from his home, "the poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling," and singing to himself:
In the mansion that he built at Arden, there were a hundred telephones, sixty of them linked to the long-distance lines.
He sat, the guest of honor, at an Arden Club banquet, with men of note whom he had heard about and read about all his life; and they told him how, when they had read "The Ring of Bells" in the TRANSCONTINENTAL, and "The Peri and the Pearl" in THE HORNET, they had immediately picked him for a winner.
I have watched her wandering through the forest of Arden, disguised as a pretty boy in hose and doublet and dainty cap.
Cannock Chase is not far from Sherwood, and the great Forest of Arden is not far from Cannock Chase.
The independent research house Arden Partners has restated its positive stance on copper mine developer Asiamet Resources PLC (LON:ARS) with a price target of 23p.
BIRMINGHAM IT services group Arden has been bought by a London-based cloud computing specialist Babble Cloud.
"One fun thing about Vermont is that you can be running through the woods and just stumble over a random graveyard," says Arden, who lives near Vermont's Green Mountain National Forest.
Not only has the Elizabeth Arden cream been selling--its original formula unchanged--for 88 years, it sells, well, a lot.
Postcard Arden House A Callander guesthouse - which was the location for the popular 1960s TV drama Dr Finlay's casebook - has received a prestigious tourism award.
Recent research carried out on behalf of Arden University reveals how the experience has left mums and dads thinking about their own career prospects, as well as their children's.
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