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
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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
I stagger back out into the brilliance of Wardour Street.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2012
Mendelssohn is at the top of his form in this music, and here is no Shakespearian Old English Wardour Street style: it is just Mendelssohn at his best, and a very good best it is.
From Shakespeare and Music by Christopher Wilson
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