Romeville

English

Proper noun

Romeville

1. Alternative spelling of Rum-ville
   • 1992, Cynthia Morgan, Court of Shadows:

     I trow I have seen you somewhere, somewhere other than the Jerusalem Tree. In Romeville, as like as not. Mayhap we have been in the same bousing ken or stalling ken at some time. Mayhap we have couched a hogshead at the same house in Southwark.

   • 2013, Maria McCann, Ace, King, Knave:

     And didn't he teach you what it was? We're in Romeville now, you simpkin. But you can't call it that in respectable company. You must say, London.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Rum-ville.