corridor

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Francis and Angus strolled along the train, outside, for the corridor was already blocked with the mad Bologna rush, and the baggage belonging.

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  1. noun A narrow hallway, passageway, or gallery, often with rooms or apartments opening onto it.
  2. noun A tract of land forming a passageway, such as one that allows an inland country access to the sea through another country.
  3. noun A restricted tract of land for the passage of trains.
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  • The walls offered no hand- holds whatsoever and the lip at the bend in the corridor was already out of reach. —  Analog July, 1974
  • While the corridor was again empty, the shouts of frantic, angry passengers were louder on this deck. —  The Wheel of Darkness by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
  • Approaching down the corridor was a little old man with an unkempt beard and slovenly clothes, quite out of keeping with the hotel. —  Maigret and the Enigmatic Lett—Simenon, Georges - 01
  • At the end of the corridor was another steel and wood door which led into a small board room. —  Booked for Murder—McDermid, Val - Lindsay Gordon 05
  • But just past ten-thirty, a time when the floors vibrated with the motion of our neighbours and the hum of guests going past in the corridor was at a peak, a shudder of alarm ran through the building, a shout and a pounding on doors, one after another, working its way rapidly towards us. —  The Game--Laurie King--Mary Russell 07
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  1. French, from Italian corridore, from correre, to run, from Latin currere; see kers- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Dutch corridor = Danish Swedish korridor, from French corridor, from Italian corridore, a corridor, gallery, a runner, a race-horse (= Spanish Portuguese corredor, a runner, race-horse, corridor), from correre = Spanish Portuguese correr = French courir, from Latin currere, run: see current, and cf. currour.
 

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