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blackfriars

n. (plural of blackfriar English)

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Blackfriars

A number of places and things have the name Blackfriars, derived from the Black Friars, a common name for the Dominican Order of friars or a Dominican friar. Such place names indicate a current or former Dominican presence at or near the site so named:

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London Bridge to his left, and strode briskly down Upper Thames Street towards Blackfriars Bridge and Victoria Embankment.

Court, Marble Arch, Blackfriars, White City, Victoria, Angel, Oxford Circus .

He had crossed Blackfriars Bridge, in the City of London, many times, and he had often passed through Blackfriars station, but he had learned by now not to assume anything.

The noise and the light struck him like a bottle across the face: he was standing on Blackfriars Station, in the middle of the rush hour.

Alleyn hurried them along the Embankment for a short way and then turned off somewhere near Blackfriars Underground Station.

She went as far as Blackfriars Bridge, and turning back, sat down on a bench under a plane-tree, just as the sun broke through.

Marigold has a gay house in the Blackfriars you know, maids for hire, harlots.

London is at its worst and, as we rattled over Blackfriars Bridge, I noted that wreaths of mist were rising from the river like the poisonous vapours of some hot jungle swamp.

It was one of those gray, brooding summer days when London is at its worst and, as we rattled over Blackfriars Bridge, I noted that wreaths of mist were rising from the river like the poisonous vapors of some hot jungle swamp.