Mayfair
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The Beatles' first official London museum is set to open next year in the Mayfair building where the band recorded its final album and played its last gig, Paul McCartney announced Monday.
From Barron's • May 11, 2026
It would also get you about 760 properties in London's Mayfair - by far the UK's most expensive place to live.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
Beatrice founded advisory firm BY-EQ, while Eugenie works as a director at the art gallery Hauser & Wirth in Mayfair.
From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026
Julian Scot-Smith was window shopping at a Porsche dealership with his wife in London’s fancy Mayfair district before Christmas, sizing up the SUVs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026
He picked up the telephone, and in an assumed voice rich with Mayfair accents said, “Yus?”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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