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Definition of Safety isle

1. Noun. A curbed area in a roadway from which traffic is excluded; provides safe area for pedestrians.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Safety Isle

Literary usage of Safety isle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Modern City Planning and Maintenance by Frank Koester (1914)
"a safety isle between the street car tracks, continuous except at the intersection ... This safety isle is penetrated by a continuous slot, heavily grated, ..."

2. American Police Administration: A Handbook on Police Organization and by Elmer Diedrich Graper (1921)
"In the center of the circle a large space is reserved as a safety isle for pedestrians; ... The safety isle keeps vehicles in the proper position. ..."

3. Electric Railway Transportation by Henry William Blake, Walter Jackson (1917)
"In theory these platforms are a modification of the raised " safety isle," familiar to visitors to Paris, and are intended to protect passengers intending ..."

4. Electric Railway Transportation by Henry William Blake, Walter Jackson (1917)
"In theory these platforms are a modification of the raised "safety isle," familiar to visitors to Paris, and are intended to protect passengers intending to ..."

5. Electric Railway Transportation by Henry William Blake, Walter Jackson (1917)
"In theory these platforms are a modification of the raised "safety isle," familiar to visitors to Paris, and are intended to protect passengers intending to ..."

6. The Constitutional Conventions of Virginia from the Foundation of the by David Loyd Pulliam (1901)
"... member Virginia General Assembly; member Convention, 1775; Brigadier-General Virginia Militia ; member Committee Safety, Isle of Wight county, 1774. ..."

7. A Guide to Russian Literature (1820-1917) by Moissaye Joseph Olgin (1920)
"Literature was the only refuge of the Russian mind, the only safety isle to avoid stagnation. All that was deepest in the soul of our spiritual leaders ..."

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