Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A district of Greater London in southeast England on the north bank of the Thames River. It is noted for Kensington Palace, the principal royal residence in the 1700s.
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- proper noun An affluent area of west
London ; South Kensington contains several major museums
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Examples
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KENSINGTON - A long-haired, bearded man who claimed to be carrying a bomb tried to rob a Kensington bank on Monday, prompting the evacuation of the building and road closures that continued even after a suspect was detained.
San Diego News 2009
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Between 2000, when he moved to La Duke Drive in Kensington, and 2007, Rosenberg worked with members of Kensington's Rock Creek Hills Citizens 'Association to commission a study on the matter by the county's Department of Public Works and Transportation; the group also sent petitions to State Highway Administration and Federal Railroad Administration officials.
Kensington is Md.'s first Quiet Zone Alex Ruoff 2010
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I think the person who wrote that the area between Prairie and Kensington is bad now .. is crazy.
Aurora Housing Authority's Chronic Problem of Jericho Circle Complex to Be Demolished Summer 2010 2009
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Efforts to demolish a burned out home in Kensington are running into opposition from area preservation groups who say the 19th-Century Queen Anne structure is unique and should be saved, The Gazette reports.
Battle over historic home in Kensington Washington Post editors 2010
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I had the pleasure of visiting the workshops in Kensington where the sets for the Australian production were built.
Costume Delays on the Western Line Heather McDougal 2009
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The behaviour of the representatives of a religion of peace in Kensington yesterday was disgraceful with officers being squirted with accelerant and having lighted matches flicked at them, plus attempts to set police vehicles alight.
All That Trouble Over A Footballer « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Barbara Hulanicki opened the first Biba boutique in Kensington, west London, in 1964.
House of Fraser ponders Biba stores Zoe Wood 2010
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Kim Turner, a RICS member based in Kensington, London, said: Some 80 per cent of our buyers are foreign.
Britain’s Housing Market is Benefiting from Not Being in the Euro | Impact Lab 2010
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On Remembrance Sunday 1994 (I think) I was in Kensington outide the church – some PCs + WPCs on duty at the trafiic lights.
Sunday Post, Ruralshire, England. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Today the SSA students were given the opportunity to visit one of their centres in Kensington, the place SHAWCO started 66 years ago.
Archive 2009-07-01 HayleyM 2009
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