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Whitefriars

American  
[hwahyt-frahy-erz, wahyt-] / ˈʰwaɪtˌfraɪ ərz, ˈwaɪt- /

noun

  1. a district in central London, England.


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One of the estimated 600 schools with a classroom canine is Whitefriars Primary Academy in King's Lynn, Norfolk, which said Poppy the cockapoo helped with wellbeing and learning.

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2025

Dorothy Spicer, 84, was found lying face down outside Whitefriars care home in Stamford, Lincolnshire, and died of pneumonia two months later.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2014

The "Constitutionnel" office is about as little known to the mass of its subscribers as either Printing-house square or Whitefriars.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various

Even when Whitefriars was at its grandest, and plumes moved about its narrow river-side streets, Dorset House was its central and most stately mansion.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

By the Author of "Whitefriars," "Owen Tudor," &c.

From A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition by Ross, William A.