Gillettes

Proper noun

Gillette (countable and uncountable, plural Gillettes)

1. A surname, variant of Gillett.
2. A ghost town in Teller County, Colorado, United States.
3. An unincorporated community in Manatee County, Florida, United States.
4. An unincorporated community in Long Hill Township, Morris County, New Jersey, United States.
5. A city, the county seat of Campbell County, Wyoming, United States.
   • In those 18 years, Gillette, a small town in northeastern Wyoming, has changed from a group of houses and a railroad depot servicing a ranching and farming community to a mining boomtown, growing at a rate of 15 to 20 percent a year.1979, United States Department of Commerce, “Jobs Through Economic Development”, in Boomtown Problems
6. A brand of razor blade.
   • In the men's room he watched a man about his own age pathetically trying to shave a five-day beard with a rusty Gillette razor he had probably found in a trash bin.2005, Dan Gerber, A Voice from the River, page 22