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Bow Street

American  
[boh] / boʊ /

noun

  1. a street in London, England: location of a metropolitan police court.


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The singer comes up in another tour: an outdoor one organized jointly by the Royal Opera House and the Bow Street Police Museum that runs through Aug. 31.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2023

The name may be synonymous with a space on a Monopoly board and its connection to the birth of professional policing - but Bow Street has got its station back.

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2021

However, it is not the Bow Street near Covent Garden in central London but its namesake near Aberystwyth in mid Wales.

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2021

Then, if the second part of the exhibition became a site-specific performance at Bow Street magistrates' court, everyone would be happy.

From The Guardian • Oct. 10, 2010

The design, however, is the same, only the Anglo-Norman filled in his detail from his observation of a manorial court, the Moorfield engraver from his knowledge of Bow Street police-court.

From The Grotesque in Church Art by Wildridge, T. Tindall

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