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Gideon U.S.|ˈgɪdɪən|
[f. the name of an Israelite leader (see Judges vi. 11 ff.).]
A member of a Christian organization of American commercial travellers, founded in 1899. Gideon Bible, a Bible purchased by this organization and placed in a hotel room, Pullman car, etc.
1906Springfield Weekly Republican 13 Sept. 11 The religiously-minded commercial travelers, known as Gideons, have four prosperous camps in cities of New York state. 1920Atlantic Monthly July 88 He replied in words that may still be read, thanks to the Gideons, in any hotel room. 1922Bookman Feb. 552/2 He has stolen, to date, fifty-eight Gideon Bibles, twenty-seven from the Hotel Astor alone, and presented them to friends. 1956‘N. Shute’ Beyond Black Stump 17 He had nothing to read till he discovered the Gideon Bible in the drawer of the bedside table. 1961K. Vonnegut Sirens of Titan (1967) iii. 53 He took the Gideon Bible that was in his room, and he started with the first sentence in Genesis. |