Mutton Walk

proper noun

The saloon at Drury Lane Theatre, once a popular gathering-place.

Meanings

proper nounthe Mutton Walk
  1. UKobsoleteslangThe saloon at Drury Lane Theatre, once a popular gathering-place.

    However this might be, the pain occasioned by the sudden movement of TALLYHO, who had not yet learned to trip it lightly along the mutton walk, induced the sufferer to roar out most lustily, […]

    1823, Pierce Egan, Real Life in London
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