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Whitefriars

[ hwahyt-frahy-erz, wahyt- ]

noun

  1. a district in central London, England.


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Whitefriars is partly built upon, but some of the courts and gardens remain.

Whitefriars and Blackfriars are our next places of pilgrimage, and they open up quite new lines of reading and of thought.

At the back of Whitefriars we come upon Bridewell, the site of a palace of the Norman kings.

If Whitefriars was inhabited by actors, Blackfriars was equally favoured by players and by painters.

A third riot was with those ceaseless enemies of the Templars, the Alsatians, or lawless inhabitants of disreputable Whitefriars.

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