What does streetling mean?
Streetling means A small, inferior, or minor street..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A small, inferior, or minor street..
[…] and was then received into a magnificent high-backed chair, covered with orange silk, and gay with flags and streamers, on which I was borne on the shoulders of six electors, nodding majestically through all the streets and streetlings; […]
The traffic had to flow round by Broad Street, St. Giles; whilst between Broad Street and Great Russell Street is the notorious St. Giles' rookery, of which Church Lane — a miserable streetling, running parallel with and south of New Oxford […]
This, however, it was impossible in such a bustling thoroughfare to do; a fact which the scrambling and exclamations of the half-dozen streetlings clambering on the outer railings speedily brought home to me.
Clean face and glossy curls must never frown upon little smutty, streetling publican.
Suddenly I was a demure demoiselle set to scream a second time for help, not the starving streetling I'd become since arriving in Paris six months prior, several weeks shy of my sixteenth birthday.
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Streetling means A small, inferior, or minor street..
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[…] and was then received into a magnificent high-backed chair, covered with orange silk, and gay with flags and streamers, on which I was borne on the shoulders of six electors, nodding majestically through all the streets and streetlings; […]
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