Baker Street
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Named after William Baker, a builder.
Proper noun[edit]
- A street in the City of Westminster, London; the fictional home of Sherlock Holmes was at number 221B.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
- She was looking more like Sherlock Holmes than ever. Slap a dressing-gown on her and give her a violin, and she could have walked straight into Baker Street and no questions asked.