Sas·soon

(sə-so͞on′, să-), Siegfried Lorraine 1886-1967.

British writer known for his antiwar poems, based on his combat experience in World War I, and for his fictionalized three-volume autobiography, first published as The Memoirs of George Sherston (1928-1936).

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Sassoon

(sæˈsuːn)

1. (Biography) Siegfried (Lorraine). 1886–1967, British poet and novelist, best known for his poems of the horrors of war collected in Counterattack (1918) and Satirical Poems (1926). He also wrote a semi-fictitious autobiographical trilogy The Memoirs of George Sherston (1928–36)

2. (Biography) Vidal. 1928–2012, British hair stylist: founder and chairman of Vidal Sassoon Inc

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Sas•soon

(sæˈsun)

n.

Siegfried (Loraine), 1886–1967, English poet and novelist.

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