Both Uses of
thoroughfare
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- Then, traversing with the decided step of one who remembered the way well, several dark and dirty streets—much dirtier than usual, for the best public thoroughfares remained uncleansed in those times of terror—he stopped at a chemist's shop, which the owner was closing with his own hands.†
Chpt 3.9
- A small, dim, crooked shop, kept in a tortuous, up-hill thoroughfare, by a small, dim, crooked man.†
Chpt 3.9 *
Definition:
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(thoroughfare) a road -- typically a main road, but potentially any road, path, or means of getting from one place to another