paddingtonia

Updated: May 4, 2025

James's, which are open to the men; while the ladies have but their dingy three-windowed brick boxes in Belgravia or in Paddingtonia, or in the region between the road of Edgware and that of Gray's Inn. In my grandfather's time it used to be Freemasonry that roused their anger.

William Makepeace Thackeray - The Book of Snobs