subs. phr. (old).—See quot. [Monmouth-Street (now Dudley-Street) was long a mart for second-hand clothes.] Cf. WARDOUR-STREET ENGLISH.
1851. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, etc. ii. 25. MONMOUTH-STREET FINERY was a common term to express tawdriness and pretence.
