| 单词 | white way |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhite way white way n. U.S. (usu. with capital initials) a brilliantly lit city street; spec. the main street of a theatre district (earliest in Great White Way n. at great adj., n., adv., and int. Compounds 1e). ΚΠ 1902 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 22 Nov. 6/4 (heading) ‘It's Carmen or Nothing’... Miss Phillips Out of Cast. Manager Hands Her the Second Part to Play and She Cries ‘Quits’... Miss Phillips..Will Join the Throng on ‘The Great White Way’. 1920 S. Lewis Main St. xxv. 416 Then, glory of glories, the town put in a White Way. 1933 E. Caldwell God's Little Acre xi. 170 Out of the grey darkness of the building the girl suddenly appeared in the glow of the whiteway lights. 1939 Florida: Guide to Southernmost State (Federal Writers' Project) ii. 259 Central Avenue [in St Petersburg], the city's ‘White Way’, extends rulerlike for 7 miles across the peninsula. 1992 N. Cohn Heart of World i. 5 Broadway..is mother of Broadways all over world, mother of lights of Piccadilly Circus and of Place Pigalle and Teatralny Ploschtchad. Great White Way is greatest white way. < as lemmas |
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