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Strand, street in London, England, roughly parallel with the Thames River, running from the Temple to Trafalgar Square. It is a street of law courts, hotels, theaters, and office buildings and is the main artery between the City and the West End. strand1 Chiefly poetic 1. a shore or beach 2. a foreign country strand2 1. a set of or one of the individual fibres or threads of string, wire, etc., that form a rope, cable, etc. 2. a single length of string, hair, wool, wire, etc. Strand the. a street in W central London, parallel to the Thames: famous for its hotels and theatres
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It is time to relate what a change took place in English public opinion when it transpired that the real bankrobber, a certain James Strand, had been arrested, on the 17th day of December, at Edinburgh. All down Wellington Street people could be seen fluttering out the pink sheets and reading, and the Strand was suddenly noisy with the voices of an army of hawkers following these pioneers. I first saw her in one of the narrow streets leading from Leicester Square to the Strand. |
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