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Swell Street
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English
Proper noun
swell street
en UK slang obsolete The West End of London.
en 1846 George William MacArthur Reynolds The Mysteries of London 2 140 But the life that I love is in Swell-street to shine, / With a Mounseer-fak'd calp, and my strummel all fine,
en 1888 Henry King Savage London 349 "My beauty, it's no fault of yourn that you're fit to mate with a lord; but it ain't in me to eat of his bread, and live respectable to order, in Swell Street."
Henry Pitman, The Popular Lecturer [afterw.] Pitman's Popular Lecturer (page 140)
the never-failing curling lotion, invented and manufactured by Fop and Co., of Swell-street, London.
References
en 1873 John Camden Hotten The Slang Dictionary