Holy Land

Definitions

1. That part of the Middle East, consisting mostly of Israel and Palestine, in which most Biblical events are set.
   Judaism
2. The Seven Dials area of London, England.
   UK, obsolete, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“Before returning to Dickens's accounts of these places, it is interesting to read⟳ what Charles Booth had to say⟳ of Shelton Street as he saw⟳ it in 1889, at a time when wholesale demolitions carried out for the construction of New Oxford Street in 1847 and Shaftesbury Avenue in 1885 had cut⟳ a swathe through “the Holy Land⟳”.”

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