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Ty⋅burn

[tahy-bern]
–noun
a former place of public execution in London, England.
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Tyburn 
place of public execution for Middlesex from c.1200 to 1783; it stood at the junction of modern Oxford Street, Bayswater Road and Edgware Road.
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