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Cheapside

[ cheep-sahyd ]

noun

  1. a district and thoroughfare in London, England.


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So home, and then to Cheapside about buying a piece of plate to give away to-morrow to Mrs. Browne's child.

Joyce an hour or two, and so her husband not being at home, away I went and in Cheapside spied him and took him into the coach.

People bought and sold in markets, and the name of the busy City street, Cheapside, reminds us of this.

Smack went the whip, round went the wheels—were never folks so glad; The stones did rattle underneath, as if Cheapside were mad.

It was a provincial combination of Regent Street and Cheapside.

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