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Swell Street

Noun CEFR B2

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

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

swell-mobsman swellability swellage swelldom Swelled swelled head

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