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单词 by-street
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by-streetn.

Brit. /ˈbʌɪstriːt/, U.S. /ˈbaɪˌstrit/
Forms: Also 1700s–1800s bye-street.
Etymology: < by- comb. form 2c(a)(ii) + street n. and adj.
A street out of the main thoroughfare; a side street, lying out of the way, and hence less frequented.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > street > [noun] > side or cross
side street1617
by-street1684
return1756
off-street1793
cross-street1827
rat-run1966
1684 J. Dryden Prol. Women in Misc. Poems 285 In some by-street To take a Lodging.
1704 London Gaz. No. 4029/2 They were to watch him at the turning of a certain By-street.
1780 W. Coxe Acct. Russ. Discov. 216 It has two principal streets..with two by-streets running South.
1880 R. Browning Pietro in Dramatic Idyls 38 Padua's blackest blindest bye-street.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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