Belgravia
(bɛlˈgreɪvɪə)
[f. Belgrave Square, named after Belgrave, a town in Leicestershire + -ia.]
A fashionable residential district in London, south of Knightsbridge. Hence Belˈgravian a., pertaining to, or characteristic of, Belgravia; as n., a resident of Belgravia.
| 1848 Thackeray Van. Fair li, Ask the Reverend Mr. Thurifer if Belgravia is not a sounding brass, and Tyburnia a tinkling cymbal. Ibid., Her [sc. Semele's] myth ought to be taken to heart amongst..the Belgravians. 1849 ― Pendennis I. xxxvii. 358 The most elderly Belgravian Venus, or inveterate Mayfair Jezebel. 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. ii. 34 Shriek not in your Belgravian saloons. 1851 Knight Cycl. Lond. 758 Architecture..in the Belgravian style. a 1852 Mayhew Lond. Labour (1861) II. 395/2 The patrician squares of what has been called Belgravia and Tyburnia. 1864 M. Arnold Let. 10 May (1895) I. 232, I just get here, within reach of the Belgravian paradise. 1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 851/1 The fashionable Belgravia was built about 1825. 1891 Athenæum 27 June 824/2 That ineffable Belgravian, Lady Galbraith. Ibid., The De Moleyns are excellent conventional Belgravians. |