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Harley Street en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈhɑː.li ˌstɹiːt/ (UK)

Etymology

After Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (1689-1741).

Meanings

  1. A street in Westminster having many physicians' practices.
    • A lot of [hymenoplasty] is done on Harley Street and in the surrounding exclusive clinics in London. 2008, Qanta A. Ahmed, In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom:
    • the famous surgeon, Sir Julian Freke, who directed the surgical side of the great new hospital, and was, in addition, known in Harley Street as a distinguished neurologist with a highly individual point of view. 1923, Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body?:
  2. (broadly) The English medical profession (especially the private sector) as a group.