Both Uses of
thoroughfare
in
Washington Square
- It has a kind of established repose which is not of frequent occurrence in other quarters of the long, shrill city; it has a riper, richer, more honourable look than any of the upper ramifications of the great longitudinal thoroughfare—the look of having had something of a social history.†
Chpt 3 *
- Catherine continued to live in her father's house in spite of its being represented to her that a maiden lady of quiet habits might find a more convenient abode in one of the smaller dwellings, with brown stone fronts, which had at this time begun to adorn the transverse thoroughfares in the upper part of the town.†
Chpt 34
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