Wardour Street
Britishnoun
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a street in Soho where many film companies have their London offices: formerly noted for shops selling antiques and mock antiques
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affectedly archaic speech or writing
Example Sentences
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Another pub for Hendrix fans is The Ship on Wardour Street, close to where the Marquee Club once was.
From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2020
The entrepreneur opened the first Pizza Express restaurant in Wardour Street, Soho, in 1965 and now has 490 branches around the UK and Ireland.
From BBC • Dec. 6, 2018
Two years later it moved to Wardour Street.
From The Guardian • May 26, 2012
The 10-storey property opened on the corner of Leicester Square and Wardour Street in February and has 192 rooms, a Michelin-starred restaurant, a 35,000 square foot M&M's World store and 11 apartments.
From Reuters • Sep. 21, 2011
Hence the educated eye can at once detect a piece of genuine old decorative furniture from a Wardour Street made-up bit of pseudo-imitation.
From Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture by Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William)
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