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Back Bay

noun

a prosperous residential and commercial area of Boston, Massachusetts.

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So we purchased that afternoon, through Mr. H——, ten thousand dollars' worth of Back-bay land.

Left on Labrador |Charles Asbury Stephens
On the north is the Charles river, which widens here into a broad, originally much broader, inner harbour or back-bay.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 |Various

British Dictionary definitions for back bay

back bay

noun

Canadian a small bay or inlet of a lake