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Soho

noun

A district in southwestern Manhattan noted for its shops and restaurants and galleries and artist's lofts. Synonym: South of Houston.

A city district of central London now noted for restaurants and nightclubs.

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"Soho" Quotes from Famous Books

... another, until the worthy Jonathan became as helpless and foolish as his great contemporary and namesake, the Dean of St. Patrick's; and after having died 'first at top,' did his son the favour to die altogether, intestate, whereby the roisterer and spendthrift of Soho and Covent-garden came into a very handsome fortune. The old man died in 1766, aged eighty; a very fine specimen of your good old English tradesman of the Puritanical school. The roisterer, Matthew, was by this time forty-six years of age, and, I suppose, had ...

— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon

... that first day, when I called upon him at his room, we met frequently. We walked long miles together, generally from Bloomsbury to the river, along the river to Vauxhall, and back by Westminster to Soho. We sometimes dined together at a little French restaurant, called the Restaurant des Gourmets. The house still stands; but it has now grown to five times the size. The place where Synge and I used to sit has now been improved away. We spent happy hours there, ...

— John M. Synge: A Few Personal Recollections, with Biographical Notes • John Masefield

... cab and drove to Cambours, which was in Soho, and was fortunate enough to discover Whiteside in ...

— The Daffodil Mystery • Edgar Wallace

... next day it was all true. His aunt and uncle and his two cousins were in the Tower and gloom hung over Arden House in Soho like a black thunder-cloud over a mountain. And the days went on, and lessons with Mr. Parados were a sort of Inquisition torture to Dickie. For the tutor never let a day pass without trying to find out whether Dickie had shared in any way that guilty knowledge of Elfrida's which ...

— Harding's luck • E. [Edith] Nesbit

... into a labyrinth of dark streets. The west wind had brought a gentle rain with it now. It was benignant upon their faces, with a suggestion of grasses and spring flowers pushing their heads above the earth. They passed by the Soho restaurants, crowded to the doors. They found one at last in a more ...

— Mary Gray • Katharine Tynan

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