Oates (n.)

  1. English conspirator who claimed that there was a Jesuit plot to assassinate Charles II (1649-1705)

    [ Syn: oates , titus oates ]

  2. United States writer (born in 1938)

    [ Syn: oates , joyce carol oates ]

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