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Camberwell

American  
[kam-ber-wel, -wuhl] / ˈkæm bərˌwɛl, -wəl /

noun

  1. a former residential borough of Greater London, England, now part of Southwark.


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Speaking to the BBC, he said when he had gone to place an order at a restaurant in Camberwell, staff told him there had been complaints about him.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2024

From his earliest childhood in Camberwell, a more exclusive suburb, he felt oppressed by the bourgeois conformism that enveloped his parents and their circle, and depressed by his mother’s cold suburban propriety.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2023

John Barry Humphries was born in the Melbourne suburb of Camberwell on 17 February 1934.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2023

The 13-year-old suffered a cardiac arrest three days after testing positive for Covid-19 at King's College Hospital in Camberwell.

From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2023

Mr. Wopsle, as the ill-requited uncle of the evening’s tragedy, fell to meditating aloud in his garden at Camberwell.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

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