Meanings
- A village in the town of Mount Pleasant, Westchester County, New York, United States.
Former name: North Tarrytown
- A locality in the Tweed council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
plural Sleepy Hollows
- Any very quiet and uneventful locality.
Sydney has had the reputation of being a regular Sleepy Hollow compared to the Victorian capital. But, of late, it has waked up.
1877, Julian Thomas, The Vagabond Papers1 more example
Yes, but Tom is somewhere among the Alps just now and there's no one else in this fascinating Sleepy Hollow of yours that we could get in time […]
1934, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], The Bravo of London
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