Both Uses of
thoroughfare
in
Moby Dick
- In thoroughfares nigh the docks, any considerable seaport will frequently offer to view the queerest looking nondescripts from foreign parts.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- But granting all this; yet, regarded discreetly and coolly, seems it not but a mad idea, this; that in the broad boundless ocean, one solitary whale, even if encountered, should be thought capable of individual recognition from his hunter, even as a white-bearded Mufti in the thronged thoroughfares of Constantinople?†
Chpt 43-45
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