Belgravia
noun
a fashionable district in London, England, adjoining Hyde Park.
Belgravian
-
a word derived from
Belgravia.
Example Sentences
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Then if we could follow him, we might see him reach his Belgravian mansion, and fling an angry word to his wife as she sits alone in the darkling drawing-room, poring over the embers.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray
After that altruistic exploit Stevie was put to help wash the dishes in the basement kitchen, and to black the boots of the gentlemen patronising the Belgravian mansion.
From The Secret Agent a Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad
Rushing outside, we catch p. 42hasty glimpses of our hereditary legislators as they, in fashionable brougham or on splendid blood, start for their parks or respective Belgravian homes.
From Here and There in London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
All these interesting details about people of the very highest rank, we are supposed to whisper in the reader's ear as we are sitting at a Belgravian dinner-table.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Belgravian mother does not even understand the miserable trade she has chosen.
From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Lucia Gilbert Calhoun
