Row

proper noun

1. 1

   A surname.

proper noun

1. 1

   Variant of Paternoster RowhistoricalEllipsis of Paternoster Row, a former street in London, England, that was a centre of the publishing trade.

2. 2

   Variant of Savile RowEllipsis of Savile Row, a street in London, England, known for its traditional bespoke tailoring.

   Three points about this unobtrusive person showed promptly to the exercised eye that he was not a Row man pur sang. First, an irrepressible wrinkle or two in the waist of his frock-coat—denoting that he had not damned his tailor sufficiently to drive that tradesman up to the orthodox high pressure of cunning workmanship.

   Its mission is to protect and promote the art of bespoke tailoring on The Row.

Forms

plural

Rows