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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Life on Wardour Street can be chaotic, but he doesn’t mind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
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
Peter Boizot opened his first restaurant in Wardour Street, Soho, in 1965 and it now has 490 branches around the UK and Ireland.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2019
My first visit was to Crackers nightclub on Wardour Street in September 1975, aged 15.
From The Guardian ● May 17, 2015
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 F. W. (Frederick William) Fairholt
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