blackfriars

Speech parts

1. blackfriars - Noun

2. blackfriars - Interjection

3. Blackfriars - Proper noun

Meaning

blackfriars

plural of blackfriar

blackfriars

(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) look out; beware

An area within the City of London, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3180).

(Oxford University) Blackfriars, Oxford.

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Examples

I shall see you on Blackfriars Bridge, Tessa. Cassandra Clare

[On the phone] "My dear Jim's dead...No dear, he jumped off Waterloo Bridge - Yes, the one next to Charing Cross - No, no, no that's Blackfriars." Noël Coward

An incredible view taken in 2006 over Bankside and Blackfriars, looking west from Tate Modern (left). Source: Internet

At 7:30 am on Friday, 18 June 1982, a postal clerk was crossing Blackfriars Bridge and noticed his body hanging from scaffolding beneath Blackfriars Bridge on the edge of the financial district of London. Source: Internet

Bevington, pp. 17–20 Audiences at the Blackfriars were generally upper class, as the cost of admission was so high that the lower classes were unlikely to attend many performances. Source: Internet

A new pavilion was opened by David Gower on 17 September 2005 *Blackfriars The Cleary Foundation donated the refectory of the 13th-century friary by the Marlowe Theatre as an art school and gallery. Source: Internet

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