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Fleet Street
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What does Fleet Street mean?
proper noun
- A street in Westminster borough, London, England, that runs from Ludgate Hill to the Strand; formerly the centre of English journalism.
- English journalism or journalists as a group.
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The Bishop of Litchfield barely escaped with his life after preaching at St. Bride's, Fleet Street.
He found the bridge broken down, but mended it, came across, and bravely fought his way up Fleet Street to Ludgate Hill.
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He worked for a time in the printing office of Richard Taylor, Shoe Lane, Fleet Street, and mentioned the matter to him.
He performed five times a day at the Duke of Marlborough's Head, in Fleet Street, the prices being half-a-crown, eighteen pence and one shilling.
In Wellington Street my brother met a couple of sturdy roughs who had just been rushed out of Fleet Street with still-wet newspapers and staring placards.