Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A fashionable district in the West End of London, England. It was named after an annual fair held in the district until 1708.
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- proper noun countable An annual two-week-long
fair that took place in centralLondon between 1686 and 1764. - proper noun uncountable An area of central London named after this fair.
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Examples
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This five-star icon in Mayfair is London's oldest hotel and if you're an anglophile, this is the place to satisfy every one of your cherished fantasies -- from British authors to high tea.
Pam Grout: Best London Hotels for Oh-So-British Tea Pam Grout 2010
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This five-star icon in Mayfair is London's oldest hotel and if you're an anglophile, this is the place to satisfy every one of your cherished fantasies -- from British authors to high tea.
Pam Grout: Best London Hotels for Oh-So-British Tea Pam Grout 2010
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This five-star icon in Mayfair is London's oldest hotel and if you're an anglophile, this is the place to satisfy every one of your cherished fantasies -- from British authors to high tea.
Pam Grout: Best London Hotels for Oh-So-British Tea Pam Grout 2010
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This five-star icon in Mayfair is London's oldest hotel and if you're an anglophile, this is the place to satisfy every one of your cherished fantasies -- from British authors to high tea.
Pam Grout: Best London Hotels for Oh-So-British Tea Pam Grout 2010
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In another Candy & Candy project in Mayfair, a double level refrigerated, backlit Champagne wall has been built, "designed to be dramatic," designer Martin Kemp says.
The Evolution of the Wine Cellar Jemima Sissons 2010
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This group of hippie children squatted an 8 million pound empty house in Mayfair, the neighbourhood of diplomats and Old Money, and started making art projects and having babies and eating a lot of dried pasta.
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The aristocrats lived, of course, in Mayfair and Belgravia.
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The Mail on Sunday has also obtained new details about the couple's private fortune, which includes a £1million home in Mayfair, a country home in Bath and property interests in Russia.
Labour sleaze claims update Not a sheep 2009
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Maddox Club in Mayfair was one of the first in London to get a terrace, and is packed every night: "Even if you are a nonsmoker like me, you can escape and talk and interact," says owner Fred Moss.
Dusting Off the Stogie's Stodgy Image Jemima Sissons 2010
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One Chinese client in Mayfair has asked Smith and Taylor to create a display of 67 bottles of Ch â teau Mouton Rosthchild, each label designed by a different artist.
The Evolution of the Wine Cellar Jemima Sissons 2010
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