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Soho

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So·ho  (sh)
1. A district of central London, England. Inhabited in the 17th century mainly by immigrants, it is known today for its restaurants, theaters, and nightclubs.
2. also So·Ho A district of New York City on southwest Manhattan Island noted for its galleries, restaurants, and artists' lofts. The area is south of Houston Street, hence the name.

soho [səʊˈhəʊ]
interj
1. (Individual Sports & Recreations / Hunting) Hunting an exclamation announcing the sighting of a hare
2. an exclamation announcing the discovery of something unexpected
[an Anglo-French hunting call, probably of exclamatory origin]

Soho [ˈsəʊhəʊ]
n
(Placename) a district of central London, in the City of Westminster: a foreign quarter since the late 17th century, now chiefly known for restaurants, nightclubs, striptease clubs, etc.
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Noun1.SohoSoHo - a district in southwestern Manhattan noted for its shops and restaurants and galleries and artist's lofts
Manhattan - one of the five boroughs of New York City
2.Soho - a city district of central London now noted for restaurants and nightclubs
British capital, capital of the United Kingdom, Greater London, London - the capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center


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As a consequence, country airs circulated in Soho with vigorous freedom, instead of languishing into the parish like stray paupers without a settlement; and there was many a good south wall, not far off, on which the peaches ripened in their season.
The rigid formality of the place suffocated her: the prayers and the meals, the lessons and the walks, which were arranged with a conventual regularity, oppressed her almost beyond endurance; and she looked back to the freedom and the beggary of the old studio in Soho with so much regret, that everybody, herself included, fancied she was consumed with grief for her father.
The dismal quarter of Soho seen under these changing glimpses, with its muddy ways, and slatternly passengers, and its lamps, which had never been extinguished or had been kindled afresh to combat this mournful reinvasion of darkness, seemed, in the lawyer's eyes, like a district of some city in a nightmare.
 
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