subs. phr. (general).—Rotten Row in Hyde Park—the principal airing ground during the London season.

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  1871.  Daily News, 10 May. Why should not a handsome young Englishwoman, he may ask himself, as she canters along the LADIES’ MILE, be as good to look at as a cow?

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  1885.  J. COLEMAN, A Lost Tragedian, in Longman’s Magazine, v. 494. The fashionable mob in the LADIES’ MILE.

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