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Belgravia

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Bel·gra·vi·a  (bl-grv-)
A fashionable residential district of southwest London, England, centered on Belgrave Square. It was laid out in the 1820s.

Belgravia [bɛlˈgreɪvɪə]
n
(Placename) a fashionable residential district of W central London, around Belgrave Square


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She considered herself to be of French descent, which might have been true; and after a good many years of married life with a licensed victualler of the more common sort, she provided for the years of widowhood by letting furnished apartments for gentlemen near Vauxhall Bridge Road in a square once of some splendour and still included in the district of Belgravia.
When my friend, the fashionable John Pimlico, married the lovely Lady Belgravia Green Parker, the excitement was so general that even the little snuffy old pew-opener who let me into the seat was in tears.
The Vernon Hotel stood, as if by accident, in the corner of a square in Belgravia.
 
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