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Definition of Great white way
1. Noun. A street in Manhattan that passes through Times Square; famous for its theaters.
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Literary usage of Great white way
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New Adventures by Michael Monahan (1917)
"THE great white way ROMANCERS of the daily press have ••• dubbed the stretch of
Broadway from Thirty-fourth to the Fifties the great white way, ..."
2. A Little Land and a Living by Bolton Hall (1908)
"AND A LIVING "THE great white way" AS SEEN BY RICH AND POOR. In one of my rambles
up Broadway I passed the Metropolitan Opera House just at the time the ..."
3. The Footlights, Fore and Aft by Channing Pollock (1911)
"ON THE great white way Being an account of intrepid explorations in the ...
I HE great white way is a recumbent letter I. It is recumbent because the ..."
4. Literary News by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt (1901)
"... many selfish aspirants after her moneybags, beautiful Cynthia Blount insists
on playing substitute for a governess friend in a Ger- The great white way. ..."