Dorchester
Americannoun
noun
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Peter Sellers, 38, was staying at London’s Dorchester hotel when he came across a photograph of Britt Ekland, 21, in the paper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
Later in his career, the forward played in Switzerland and Norway either side of spells at Norwich City, Brighton and Dorchester Town, before retiring in 1983 after a brief spell at Barnet.
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2026
She then spent a year peeling vegetables in a French restaurant before moving to London and refining her craft in several more restaurant kitchens, including one at the Dorchester hotel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
She calls him Brooklyn, he calls her Beantown — although Wahlberg, born in Dorchester, is the most Bostonian of all these cops; it doesn’t take an expert to place that accent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2025
She pondered over the shocking contrast between the life of a field hand in Dorchester County, Maryland, and the life she had known and enjoyed in Philadelphia and in Cape May, New Jersey.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
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