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Cubitopolis

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English

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Etymology

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From Cubitt +‎ -o- +‎ -polis, after the builder and developer Thomas Cubitt (1788–1855).

Proper noun

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Cubitopolis

  1. (obsolete, UK, slang) The Warwick Square and Eccleston Square districts of London, England.

References

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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary