Belgravian.
/bɛlˈɡreɪvɪə/, U.S. /ˌbɛlˈɡreɪviə/ A fashionable residential district in London, south of Knightsbridge.
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vintrya1456
steelyard1474
tower hillc1480
city1556
Bow-bell1600
row1607
gate1723
east end1742
Mayfair1754
garden1763
warren1769
west?1789
the Borough1797
west end1807
Holy Land1821
Belgravia1848
Tyburnia1848
Mesopotamia1850
South Kensington1862
Dockland1904
South Ken1933
Fitzrovia1958
square mile1966
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair li. 449 Ask the Reverend Mr. Thurifer if Belgravia is not a sounding brass, and Tyburnia a tinkling cymbal.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 395/2 The patrician squares of what has been called Belgravia and Tyburnia.
1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 851/1 The fashionable Belgravia was built about 1825.
Derivatives
Belˈgravian adj. pertaining to, or characteristic of, Belgravia; as n., a resident of Belgravia.
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Whitechapel1785
west end1820
Mayfair1843
Belgravian1848
Tyburnian1850
West Endian1856
West Central1857
West Endy1890
Kensingtonian1902
Mayfairish1938
South Bank1951
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cocknel1605
Wappineer1690
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Wappingera1734
West Endian1817
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Belgravian1848
west end1882
Kensingtonian1889
heathen1891
Bloomsburian1902
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair li. 449 Her [sc. Semele's] myth ought to be taken to heart amongst..the Belgravians.
1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxxvii. 358 The most elderly Belgravian Venus, or inveterate Mayfair Jezebel.
1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. ii. 34 Shriek not in your Belgravian saloons.
1851 Knight's Cycl. London 758 Architecture..in the Belgravian style.
1864 M. Arnold Let. 10 May (1895) I. 232 I just get here, within reach of the Belgravian paradise.
1891 Athenæum 27 June 824/2 That ineffable Belgravian, Lady Galbraith.
1891 Athenæum 27 June 824/2 The De Moleyns are excellent conventional Belgravians.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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