Both Uses of
breadth
in
The Age of Innocence
- He marvelled that the door should open so often, and that all the people it let out should look so like each other, and so like all the other hot men who, at that hour, through the length and breadth of the land, were passing continuously in and out of the swinging doors of hotels.†
Chpt 23
- She bent to gather up a mud-stained breadth, and followed him up the steps into the hall.†
Chpt 32 *
Definition:
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(breadth) the distance between two sides; or the range of variety -- especially a broad range of knowledge