Mayfairish

English

Etymology

Mayfair + -ish

Pronunciation

Adjective

Mayfairish (comparative more Mayfairish, superlative most Mayfairish)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of the affluent area of Mayfair in London.
    • 1962, P.C. Bailey, Stratford 1962:
      Peter Hall lets it be very obvious that he doesn't believe in fairies of the old-fashioned sort but only in the Mayfairish variety.
    • 2011, J. J. Kennedy, The Man Who Wrote the Teddy Bears' Picnic, page 100:
      By contrast, he is urbane, Mayfairish and pleasantly casual. He drifted into music-publishing four years ago 'as a joke'. Then, he began in one room. Now, his offices fill an entire building, []
    • 2013, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Newspapermen:
      One night she invited me to meet her from her advertising agency in a rather posh Mayfairish pub and I was saying to her, “What does this character look like?
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