Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A street and district in London, England. It was the market center of medieval London and the site of the Mermaid Tavern, a gathering place for Elizabethan poets and playwrights.
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- proper noun any of several
streets inEnglish towns andcities that were originallymarketplaces - proper noun a
street , and surrounding district, in theCity ; links Newgate Street, Cornhill,Threadneedle Street ,Poultry and Lomboard Street (and others)
Etymologies
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Examples
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It reminded me of Armour House in Cheapside as I read it.
The Obald, Book 1: 1983. Chapter 1: Tuesday November 1 « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2009
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My indulgent mother bought me, yesterday, at a merchant's in Cheapside, three new shifts, that cost fourteen pence an ell, and I am to have a pair of new stuff shoes, for my Lord of Norfolk's ball, which will be three shillings.
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The fire at Arbuckle, Smith and Company, in what has become known as the Cheapside Street disaster, happened on March 28, 1960.
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The fire at Arbuckle, Smith and Company, in what has become known as the Cheapside Street disaster, happened on March 28, 1960.
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The fire at Arbuckle, Smith and Company, in what has become known as the Cheapside Street disaster, happened on March 28, 1960.
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The fire at Arbuckle, Smith and Company, in what has become known as the Cheapside Street disaster, happened on March 28, 1960.
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Faith, there are parts of Paris which we can't say much for, but the worst of them are better than any here, except just the street they call Cheapside, which goes on past Saint Paul's, and along the Strand to Westminster. "
In the Irish Brigade A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain Charles Mills Sheldon 1867
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In former times, when persons of the same trade congregated together in some particular street, the mercers principally assembled in West Cheap, now called Cheapside, near where the above hall stands, and thence called by the name of "the Mercery."
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 380, July 11, 1829 Various
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Cottage, ' [51] is a most pleasing and naturally told story, written by somebody who had seen something, besides the shop windows in Cheapside.
Anecdotes and Observations, Reflections and Critical Remarks 1824
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"At a place called Cheapside they sell every thing dear."
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