The Collaborative International Dictionary
Belgravian \Bel*gra"vi*an\, a. Belonging to Belgravia (a fashionable quarter of London, around Pimlico), or to fashionable life; aristocratic.
Usage examples of "belgravian".
But when he went out he seemed to experience a great difficulty in finding his way back to his temporary home in the Belgravian square.
The change from the Belgravian square to the narrow street in Soho affected her legs adversely.
After that altruistic exploit Stevie was put to help wash the dishes in the basement kitchen, and to black the boots of the gentlemen patronising the Belgravian mansion.
Visions of a workhouse infirmary for her child had haunted the old woman in the basement breakfast-room of the decayed Belgravian house.
Winnie used to look, and much more animated than the Winnie of the Belgravian mansion days had ever allowed herself to appear to gentlemen lodgers.
He had been taken over with his mother, somewhat in the same way as the furniture of the Belgravian mansion had been taken over, as if on the ground of belonging to her exclusively.
She turned her head over her shoulder and gave that man planted heavily in front of the fireplace a glance, half arch, half cruel, out of her large eyes - a glance of which the Winnie of the Belgravian mansion days would have been incapable, because of her respectability and her ignorance.
Mrs Verloc heard the words again in a ghostly fashion, and then the dreary shadow of the Belgravian mansion descended upon her shoulders.
He was allowed to drift away from the threshold of the Belgravian mansion while Winnie averted her tearful eyes.
Lesbia, once married to a worthy man, such a man as Lord Hartfield, for instance, would soon rise to a higher level than that Belgravian swamp over which the malarian vapours of falsehood, and slander, and self-seeking, and prurient imaginings hang dense and thick.
On the table next to him stood a bottle of what appeared to be Belgravian whisky, reputedly the best in the Empire.
She had never had her own insignificance so painfully impressed upon her as in this Belgravian mansion, where the engagement, the enormous trousseau, the costly wedding presents, were matters of the deepest moment.
Mr Wilkinson, later to become a bishop, preached entertaining sermons to the lighthearted Belgravians and the organist regarded the service as an opportunity to play Mendelssohn.