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Portland Place|ˈpɔətlənd pleɪs|
The name of a street in London, applied allusively to the B.B.C., whose headquarters are there. Also attrib.
1937D. L. Sayers Busman's Honeymoon xvi. 324 Now, my little minstrels of Portland Place! Strike, you myrtle-crownéd boys! 1939‘N. Blake’ Smiler with Knife ii. 29 Bursting out..into Somerset folk-songs in perfect harmony and Portland Place accents. 1941C. King Diary 17 July in With Malice toward None (1970) 135 Walker had been spending the morning with the B.B.C... These birds from Portland Place..took his criticisms with a very bad grace. 1967Guardian 16 Oct. 5/3 The most popular disc jockey..might almost have been born in Portland Place. 1974C. Hill Behind Screen xxxi. 266 If it is interventionist to work for a more powerful..Board of Governors, then an interventionist chairman I was at Portland Place. 1977T. Jackson in Rep. Comm. Future of Broadcasting iii. xiv. 227 Without the local stations Portland Place will be like a severed head. |