Argyle is an archaic spelling of
Argyll
Argyll (; archaically Argyle, in modern Gaelic, ), sometimes called Argyllshire, is a historic county and registration county of western Scotland.
Argyll is of ancient origin, and corresponds to most of the part of the ancient kingdom of ...
, a county in western Scotland. Argyle may refer to:
Places
Australia
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Argyle, Victoria
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Argyle County, New South Wales
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Electoral district of Argyle
Argyle was an electoral district for the Legislative Assembly in the Australian State of New South Wales from 1856 to 1904, including Argyle County surrounding Goulburn. The town of Goulburn was in Southern Boroughs from 1856 to 1859 and ...
, a former electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales
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Argyle Downs
Argyle Downs is a pastoral lease and cattle station located about south east of Kununurra in the Kimberley region near the border of Western Australia and Northern Territory. It is operated by the Consolidated Pastoral Company.
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, a pastoral lease in Western Australia
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Lake Argyle
Lake Argyle is Western Australia's largest and Australia's second largest freshwater man-made reservoir by volume. The reservoir is part of the Ord River Irrigation Scheme and is located near the East Kimberley town of Kununurra. The lake ...
, an artificial lake in Western Australia
Canada
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Argyle, Manitoba
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Rural Municipality of Argyle
Argyle is a rural municipality in the province of Manitoba in Western Canada. It was incorporated on 15 August 1881 and is named after John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll who was the fourth Governor General of Canada.
Baldur is the largest communi ...
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Argyle, Nova Scotia
Argyle, officially named the Municipality of the District of Argyle, is a district municipality in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia. Statistics Canada classifies the district municipality as a municipal district.
The district municipality occupies th ...
, municipality
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Argyle, Nova Scotia (community)
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Argyle (electoral district)
Argyle is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada which existed between 1981 and 2013 and since 2021. It elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. It was created in 1981 when the district of Yarmouth was split int ...
, Nova Scotia
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Argyle Sound, Nova Scotia
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Central Argyle, Nova Scotia
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Lower Argyle, Nova Scotia
Argyle, officially named the Municipality of the District of Argyle, is a district municipality in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia. Statistics Canada classifies the district municipality as a municipal district.
The district municipality occupies th ...
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Argyle (Guysborough), Nova Scotia
Argyle is a small community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scot ...
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Argyle, Ontario
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Argyle Shore Provincial Park
Argyle Shore Provincial Park is a provincial park in on in Prince Edward Island, Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward in ...
, Prince Edward Island
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Rural Municipality of Argyle No. 1, Saskatchewan
Hong Kong
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Argyle Street, Hong Kong
Argyle Street is a four-lane dual-way thoroughfare in Kowloon, Hong Kong, connecting the districts of Mong Kok, Ho Man Tin, Ma Tau Wai and Kowloon City. It runs on an east-west alignment starting at its intersection with Cherry Street, Fe ...
United States
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Argyle, Florida
Argyle is an unincorporated community in Walton County, Florida, United States. The community is located on U.S. Route 90, east of DeFuniak Springs. Argyle has a post office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides ...
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Argyle, Georgia
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Argyle, Illinois
Argyle is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Boone and Winnebago counties in the U.S. state of Illinois, northeast of Rockford. It is part of the Rockford, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Geography
Argyle is ...
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Argyle, Iowa
Argyle is an unincorporated community in southwestern Lee County, Iowa, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 91.
It lies along the concurrent Iowa Highways 27 and 394 southwest of the city of Fort Madison, the county s ...
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Argyle, Kentucky
Argyle is an unincorporated community in Casey County, Kentucky
Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders I ...
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Argyle (Houma, Louisiana)
Argyle is a historic house on a former sugarcane plantation in Houma, Louisiana. It was built circa 1906 for Phelin Bonvillain, a sugar planter. With It belongs to the Ingram family since 1947.
The house was designed in the Eastlake architectura ...
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Argyle, Maine
Argyle is an unorganized territory (township) in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. The population was 255 at the 2020 census.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the unorganized territory has a total area of 26.7 s ...
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Argyle Township, Michigan
Argyle Township is a civil township of Sanilac County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 687. Argyle Township was organized in 1872.
Communities
* Argyle is an unincorporated community in the town ...
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Argyle, Minnesota
Argyle (pronounced are - guy - al) is a city in Marshall County, Minnesota, United States, along the Middle River. The population was 544 at the 2020 census. Old Mill State Park is nearby.
History
Before James J. Hill bought the Great Nor ...
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Argyle, Missouri
Argyle is a town in Maries and Osage counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. The population was 144 at the 2020 census.
The Osage County part of Argyle is part of the Jefferson City, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
A post offic ...
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Argyle (town), New York
Argyle is a town in Washington County, New York, United States. It is part of the Glens Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town population was 3,782 at the 2010 census. The town was named by its many early settlers from Scotland after Argy ...
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Argyle (village), New York
Argyle is a village in the town of Argyle in Washington County, New York, United States. It is part of the Glens Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area. The village population was 306 at the 2010 census. The Village and Town are named after Argylls ...
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Argyle, Texas
Argyle is a town in Denton County, Texas, United States, with a population of 4,403 as of 2020. It is a suburb of Fort Worth.
History
The first European settlement, consisting of a few families, occurred in the Argyle area in the 1850s. The pla ...
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Argyle, Utah, a ghost town
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Argyle, Washington
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Argyle, West Virginia
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Argyle (town), Wisconsin
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Argyle, Wisconsin, village within the town
People
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Michael Argyle (lawyer) (1915–1999), UK judge
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Michael Argyle (psychologist)
Michael Argyle (11 August 1925, Nottingham – 6 September 2002) was one of the best known English social psychologists of the twentieth century. He spent most of his career at the University of Oxford, and worked on numerous topics. Throughout ...
(1925–2002), 20th century British social psychologist
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Pearl Argyle
Pearl Argyle (born Pearl Wellman; 7 November 1910 – 29 January 1947) was a South African ballet dancer and actress. Remembered today primarily for her extraordinary beauty, she appeared in leading roles with English ballet companies in the 1930s ...
(1910–1947), South African ballet dancer and actress
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Stanley Argyle (1867–1940), Australian politician
Fictional characters
* Argyle, a character in the film ''
Die Hard
''Die Hard'' is a 1988 American action film directed by John McTiernan, with a screenplay by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza. Based on the 1979 novel '' Nothing Lasts Forever'', by Roderick Thorp, it stars Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Al ...
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* Argyle, a
character in the fourth season of ''Stranger Things''
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Sai Argyle
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, a fictional character in the anime ''Mobile Suit Gundam SEED''
Transportation
* Argyle, the former name for
Mong Kok station MTR station, located on Argyle Street, Hong Kong
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Argyle (CTA)
Argyle is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system. It is situated between the Berwyn and Lawrence stations on the Red Line, which runs from Rogers Park at Chicago's northern city limits, through downtown Chicago, to Rosela ...
, a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's "L" system
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Argyle Line
The Argyle Line is a suburban railway located in West Central Scotland. The line serves the commercial and shopping districts of Glasgow's central area, and connects towns from West Dunbartonshire to South Lanarkshire. Named for Glasgow's Argyl ...
, a suburban railway located in West Central Scotland
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MV ''Argyle'' Caledonian MacBrayne ferry
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Argyle International Airport
Argyle International Airport (often referred to as Argyle Airport or simply AIA) is an international airport on the island of Saint Vincent in the Caribbean nation of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. It is located in Argyle, about from the ...
, St. Vincent & the Grenadines ((IATA: SVD, ICAO: TVSA)
Other uses
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Argyle (pattern)
An argyle (, occasionally spelled argyll) pattern is made of diamonds or lozenges. The word is sometimes used to refer to an individual diamond in the design, but more commonly refers to the overall pattern. Most argyle contains layers of overl ...
, a pattern consisting of diamonds in diagonal checkerboard arrangement
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Argyle diamond mine
The Argyle Diamond Mine was a diamond mine located in the East Kimberley region in the remote north of Western Australia. Argyle was at times the largest diamond producer in the world by volume (14 million carats in 2018), although the propor ...
, Western Australia
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Argyle Hotel or The Argyle, a former name of Sunset Tower in West Hollywood, CA
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Argyle Middle School
Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) is a public school district that serves Montgomery County, Maryland. With 210 schools, it is the largest school district in the state of Maryland. For the 2022–2023 school year, the district has 13,994 ...
, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
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Argyle Secondary School, British Columbia, Canada
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Hearst-Argyle Television
Hearst Television, Inc. (formerly Hearst-Argyle Television) is a broadcasting company in the United States owned by Hearst Communications. From 1998 to mid-2009, the company traded its common stock on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbo ...
, an American television station group majority-owned by the Hearst Corporation
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Plymouth Argyle F.C.
Plymouth Argyle Football Club is a professional football club based in the city of Plymouth, Devon, England. As of the 2021–22 season, the team are competing in League One, the third tier of English football. They have played at Home Park, ...
, an English football team
* "Argyle", a song by punk band The Bouncing Souls from the album ''
Maniacal Laughter
''Maniacal Laughter'' is The Bouncing Souls' second full-length album, which includes "The Ballad Of Johnny X," and "Here We Go." The album also contains a cover of "Born to Lose," which was originally performed by Ted Daffan. "Lamar Vannoy" is ...
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See also
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Argle (disambiguation)
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Argyle Street (disambiguation)
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Argyll (disambiguation)
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Argyll and Bute (disambiguation)
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Argile (disambiguation)
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