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Soho, n.2|ˈsəʊhəʊ, səʊˈhəʊ|
a. The name of a district in the West End of London, noted for its foreign population, prostitutes, and restaurants, and latterly for its night clubs, striptease shows, pornography shops, etc. Freq. attrib. of things connected with or characteristic of Soho.
1818Keats Let. 14 Mar. (1931) I. 127 Then who would go Into dark Soho, And chatter with dack'd hair'd critics. 1890E. Dowson Let. 10 or 11 June (1967) 153 The two artists—with some other artistic & Bohemian types might meet in the early part of the book in a Soho restaurant based on Poland. 1905Chesterton Club of Queer Trades iv. 165 Some dirty Soho restaurant. 1913W. Whitten Londoner's London vi. 140 He had always a nice Soho taste in wine. 1930W. S. Maugham Cakes & Ale i. 12 You drive away wondering whether when he comes he will think you are swanking if you ask him to Claridge's or mean if you suggest Soho. 1937L. MacNeice in Auden & MacNeice Lett. from Iceland 129 To pore on picture catalogues and Soho menus. 1959Good Food Guide 221 There is now a good Soho restaurant in Birmingham with a wide menu properly cooked. It is also resolutely described in Soho French. 1964Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Nov. 1019/4 [Frank] Harris..wrote about sex in the manner and style of the cheapest Soho trash. 1976Listener 26 Feb. 239/2 Sex was..a mean..sleezy, Soho-type thing.
b. Hist. Used attrib. to designate a type of tapestry produced in England after 1685, usu. in Soho.
[1914W. G. Thomson Tapestry Weaving in England xvii. 139 At Christmas 1685 the arras-workers and tailors employed in the Great Wardrobe changed the scene of their labours to offices in Great Queen Street, Soho, which lies between the northwest corner of Lincoln's Inn Fields and Drury Lane.] 1930H.-C. Mariller Eng. Tapestries of Eighteenth Cent. p. xvii, In the absence of records it would be impossible to say which Soho tapestries were executed in the late seventeenth and which in the eighteenth century. Ibid. p. xx, There is no clear line of demarcation between the later Mortlake and the earlier Soho tapestries. 1963Times 18 Jan. 10/6 An anonymous purchaser secured four early-eighteenth-century walnut chairs covered in Soho tapestry, for 450 gns. 1978Country Life 13 Apr. 973/1 The Soho tapestries which now line the room were originally bought..in 1720. |