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A Scottish habitational surname from Old French of Norman origin from Beuzeville in France.
James Boswell, biographer of Samuel Johnson. examples
A place name:
A hamlet in Elkington parish, East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF2790). examples
A town in Grant Township, Benton County, Indiana, United States. examples
A town in Choctaw County, Oklahoma, United States. examples
A borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States. examples
A community on Kootenay Lake in the Kootenays, south-east British Columbia, Canada. examples
A former cannery town on the Central Coast of British Columbia. examples
plural Boswells
A devoted admirer and recorder of a person's words and deeds. quotations examples
"I think that I had better go, Holmes.""Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity to miss it."
1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, 'A Scandal in Bohemia'