Acacia Avenue

Definitions

1. A placeholder name for a residential street.
   UK
2. An archetypal middle-class suburban residential street.
   UK

Examples

“To Paul Hubbard of 11 Acacia Avenue, Anytown, Anyshire I give⟳ the residue of my estate.”

“In company lines intricate fences have⟳ sprung up around fantastic gardens. The officers' lines have⟳ begun to acquire⟳ an “Acacia Avenue” aspect.”

“Nor, however, is the 'bourgeois' the Acacia Avenue accountant with two children in boarding-school education.”

“A woman worked a garden behind a neat whitewashed fence, a real Acacia Avenue kind of scene.”

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