Meaning of Swell Street | Babel Free

Definitions

The West End of London.

UK, obsolete, slang

Examples

“But the life that I love is in Swell-street to shine, / With a Mounseer-fak'd calp, and my strummel all fine, […]”

“"My beauty, it's no fault of yourn ^([sic]) 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."”

“[…] the never-failing curling lotion, invented and manufactured by Fop and Co., of Swell-street, London.”

CEFR level