All 3 Uses of
thoroughfare
in
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- The inhabitants were all doing well, it seemed, and all emulously hoping to do better still, and laying out the surplus of their gains in coquetry; so that the shop fronts stood along that thoroughfare with an air of invitation, like rows of smiling saleswomen.
p. 3.3thoroughfare = main road
- In silence, too, they traversed the by-street; and it was not until they had come into a neighbouring thoroughfare, where even upon a Sunday there were still some stirrings of life, that Mr. Utterson at last turned and looked at his companion.
p. 50.5
- He walked fast, hunted by his fears, chattering to himself, skulking through the less-frequented thoroughfares, counting the minutes that still divided him from midnight.
p. 103.9 *thoroughfares = roads
Definition:
a road -- typically a main road, but potentially any road, path, or means of getting from one place to another