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Merriam Webster's

geographical name 1. city E Massachusetts NE of Boston population 35,080 2. former metropolitan borough SW London, England, on N bank of Thames River, now part of Kensington and Chelsea

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A village near London, famous for the military hospital. To get Chelsea; to obtain the benefit of that hospital. Dead Chelsea, by G-d! an exclamation uttered by a grenadier at Fontenoy, on having his leg carried away by a cannon-ball.