Swell Street

proper noun

The West End of London.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. UKobsoleteslangThe West End of London.

    […] the never-failing curling lotion, invented and manufactured by Fop and Co., of Swell-street, London.

    Henry Pitman, The Popular Lecturer [afterw.] Pitman's Popular Lecturer (page 140)
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    But the life that I love is in Swell-street to shine, / With a Mounseer-fak'd calp, and my strummel all fine, […]

    1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, volume 2, page 140

    "My beauty, it's no fault of yourn ^([sic]) that you're fit to mate with a lord; but it ain't in me to eat of his bread, and live respectable to order, in Swell Street."

    1888, Henry King, Savage London, page 349
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