Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A thoroughfare; an unobstructed passage.
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- noun Common misspelling of
thoroughfare .
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Examples
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Just think the republican is going to clog every throughfare with horses and buggies when it come what best for the American people.
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Plenty of grounds share Colchester's proximity to a major throughfare.
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My own flat in the West End of Glasgow is just off Great Western Road, so named because it runs west out of Glasgow and was historically a major throughfare, wide and long.
THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART FOUR Hal Duncan 2007
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My own flat in the West End of Glasgow is just off Great Western Road, so named because it runs west out of Glasgow and was historically a major throughfare, wide and long.
Archive 2007-04-01 Hal Duncan 2007
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The Embarcadero was not a throughfare like the Viaduct.
Sound Politics: Liberal Democrat from Seattle Speaks Wisdom 2006
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The better example is San Francisco's Central Freeway which used to be the throughfare connecting U. S.101 South to the Golden Gate Bridge.
Sound Politics: Liberal Democrat from Seattle Speaks Wisdom 2006
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Myddelton Construction Ltd, the Yorkshire-based award-winning heritage specialist contractor, have been working on a historically sensitive building site on Berwick's main shopping throughfare, 119 -126 Marygate.
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Myddelton Construction Ltd, the Yorkshire-based award-winning heritage specialist contractor, have been working on a historically sensitive building site on Berwick's main shopping throughfare, 119 -126 Marygate.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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I understand exactly what you are saying but the big difference in those streets is that the east/west downtown streets are city run streets and Fla/Neb and Hills are all FDOT run streets and their focus is to move traffic plain and simple - too bad if it goes through a neighborhood and be damed if it may slow traffic and make it a more ped friendly throughfare.
Two-faced Tampa 2007
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Great Queen Street last week, and made that no throughfare too.
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