by-street
(ˈbaɪstriːt)
Also 8–9 bye-street.
[f. by- 3 b + street.]
A street out of the main thoroughfare; a side street, lying out of the way, and hence less frequented.
| 1672 Dryden Prol. Women (Globe) 412 In sum by-street To take a lodging. 1704 Lond. Gaz. No. 4029/2 They were to watch him at the turning of a certain By-street. 1780 Coxe Russ. Discov. 216 It has two principal streets..with two by-streets running South. 1880 Browning Dram. Idylls, Pietro 38 Padua's blackest blindest bye-street. |