Grosvenor Squares

Grosvenor Squares
n pl
British
rhyming slang for flares, i.e. bell-bottom trousers. This phrase was an ephemeral youth term of the late 1970s used con-temptuously of the (by then) unfashion-able style and the remnants of the hippy movement who still favoured it. London's Grosvenor Square, the site of the US embassy, was the scene of peace dem-onstrations by students and hippies dur-ing the Vietnam war. A later, more lasting, alternative piece of rhyming slang for the same item was Lionel Blairs, fol-lowed by Tony Blairs.
► 'Belinda has discovered an important pair of "jeans" dating from the late 1960s. These are most certainly rare items, known by collectors as "Grosvenor Squares".' (Caption to cartoon by Posy Simmonds, Guardian, 1981)

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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