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Brewer's: Knight Rider Street
(London). So named from the processions of knights from the Tower to Smithfield, where tournaments were held. Leigh Hunt says the name originated in a sign or some reference to the Heralds' College in the vicinity.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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