Holy Land

Proper noun

the Holy Land

1. That part of the Middle East, consisting mostly of Israel and Palestine, in which most Biblical events are set.
2. (UK, obsolete, slang) The Seven Dials area of London, England.
   • Before returning to Dickens's accounts of these places, it is interesting to read what Charles Booth had to say of Shelton Street as he saw it in 1889, at a time when wholesale demolitions carried out for the construction of New Oxford Street in 1847 and Shaftesbury Avenue in 1885 had cut a swathe...2016, Valeria Tinkler-Villani, editor, Babylon or New Jerusalem?: Perceptions of the City in Literature, page 101