subs. (obsolete).—The Warwick and Eccleston Square districts. [From the name of the builders, see quot., 1864.] Cf., ALBERTOPOLIS, MESOPOTAMIA, ASIA MINOR, THE NEW JERUSALEM, SLOPER’S ISLAND, etc. (q.v.).
1864. The Press, 12 Nov. CUBITOPOLIS received its felicitous cognomen from Lady Morley.
1866. YATES, Land at Last, ch. iii. There are men yet living among us whose mothers had been robbed on their way from Ranelagh in crossing the spot, then a dreary swampy marsh, on which now stands the city of palaces known as CUBITTOPOLIS.
