Oxford accent
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He’s the one with the Oxford accent and amusing tales who hands around the port and cigars while he plots the hero’s demise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2024
A book published that year, War Propaganda and U.S., noted: "To many upper-class Americans there was nothing so thrilling as having an Englishman around the house, complete with Oxford accent, school tie, and bumbershoot."
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2011
He speaks "German with a Rhineland accent, French with an English accent and English with an Oxford accent," says his father.
From Time Magazine Archive
Heartbroken, Stephen returned to England to discover that his daughter had unknowingly fallen in love with young Nigel, now grown up and endowed with an Oxford accent.
From Time Magazine Archive
Him I first met, talking with an Oxford accent, in the officers' mess of the Black Watch in South Africa.
From On the Makaloa Mat by London, Jack
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