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Mayfair

American  
[mey-fair] / ˈmeɪˌfɛər /

noun

  1. a fashionable neighborhood in London, England, E of Hyde Park.


Mayfair British  
/ ˈmeɪˌfɛə /

noun

  1. a fashionable district of west central London

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The Beatles' first official London museum is set to open next year in the Mayfair building where the band recorded its final album and played its last gig, Paul McCartney announced Monday.

From Barron's May 11, 2026

It's being unveiled 100 years after her birth, on 21 April 1926, when the then Princess Elizabeth was born in a townhouse in Bruton Street in Mayfair.

From BBC Apr. 20, 2026

The children of oligarchs from the former Soviet Union lived large in the nightclubs of Mayfair.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 10, 2026

It would also get you about 760 properties in London's Mayfair - by far the UK's most expensive place to live.

From BBC Apr. 5, 2026

I’d catch a city bus to go to late-afternoon dance classes at Mayfair Academy on Seventy-Ninth Street, where I was taking jazz and acrobatics.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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