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Belltown
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English
Etymology
en William Nathaniel Bell = 1817 1887.
Proper noun
en neighborhood city/Seattle s/Washington.
en-US Mike Baker Sleepless in Seattle as a Hellcat Roars Through the Streets The New York Times 2024-05-29 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/us/seattle-belltown-hellcat.html 0362-4331 The Belltown neighborhood has been transformed in recent decades from a grungy, semi-industrial arts district to a sort of ideal of moneyed urban living, with bike-friendly streets, hip cafés and condo towers so desirable that one penthouse there became the setting of the steamy “Fifty Shades of Grey” book series. https://web.archive.org/web/20260107060747/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/us/seattle-belltown-hellcat.html 7 January 2026
Further reading
Belltown, Seattle