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Vauxhall
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tags: [geography]
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Definition:a large commercial/residential district south of London. Today the district is better known as "Gay Village" and "Voho"
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I always longed particularly to go to Vaux-hall, to see whether the cold Beef there is cut so thin as it is reported, for I have a sly suspicion that few people understand the art of cutting a slice of cold Beef so well as I do: nay it would be hard if I did not know something of the Matter, for it was a part of my Education that I took by far the most pains with.
Jane Austen. Love and Friendship
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There only remained to him the impression of a strange smile, two eyes, and a bright green tie. Whether the man had disappeared among the crowd, or whether he had turned towards the Vauxhall, the prince could not say.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Idiot (1887)
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