Back Bay


noun
  1. a prosperous residential and commercial area of Boston, Massachusetts.

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How to use Back Bay in a sentence

  • The Neck could not be forced, and to cross in boats over the Back Bay was a hazardous undertaking.

    The Siege of Boston | Allen French
  • Lucille herself had dabbled in color for a term or two in a fashionable school on the Back Bay in Boston.

    The Harris-Ingram Experiment | Charles E. Bolton
  • There were people skating on Back Bay, and chairs on runners with ladies well wrapped up in furs, and sleds of every description.

    A Little Girl in Old Boston | Amanda Millie Douglas
  • Boston has lately transferred its more than half a million volumes to the new and noble public library building on the Back Bay.

British Dictionary definitions for back bay

back bay

noun
  1. Canadian a small bay or inlet of a lake

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