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Great White Way en · PROPN

Etymology

So called from its brilliant illumination at night.

Meanings

1. (archaic, literary) Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters.
   • But Broadway's economic survival would be a Pyrrhic victory of sorts if artistic invention is slowly leached out in an attempt to make the Great White Way a New York outpost of the theme park–ing of America. 2004, Steven Adler, On Broadway: Art and Commerce on the Great White Way, SIU Press, →ISBN, page 28:
   • The Great White Way was full of […] theater mavens and gamblers, goons and drunks—and also crooks, crooks aplenty in service to the next big score. 2021, Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle, Fleet, page 136:

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