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Wimbledon

noun

A suburb of London and the headquarters of the club where annual international tennis championships are played on grass courts.

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"Wimbledon" Quotes from Famous Books

... Prince Louis Napoleon and Le Comte Leon, who is said to be the son of Bonaparte, to whom he hears a striking resemblance, were brought before Mr. Jardine, charged by Nicholas Pearce, inspector of the A division, with having met at Wimbledon Common, and attempted to commit a breach of the peace, by fighting a duel with ...

— Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign • John Ashton

... been said, Borough English was in vogue all around London—at Lambeth, Vauxhall, Croydon, Streatham, Leigham Court, Shene or Richmond, Isleworth, Sion, Ealing, Acton, and Earl's Court. In some of these places—Fulham, Wimbledon, Battersea, Wandsworth, Barnes and Richmond—the "yonger holding" descended not only to males but to females; and at Lambeth (and at Kirton-in-Lindsey, in Lincolnshire) there existed the identical arrangement which has been found at Braunton, in Devon. This equal division between daughters ...

— The Customs of Old England • F. J. Snell

Words linked to "Wimbledon" : suburb, British capital, Greater London, London, suburban area, suburbia, capital of the United Kingdom