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thoroughlane en · NOUN

Etymology

From thorough + lane. Doublet of throughlane.

Meanings

1. A way through, thoroughway.
   • We thought we'd taken a thoroughlane, but it must have been a hook road or a circlepath that with a netherbend led us through slant grass into this mortal vale. 2003, Jaap Blonk, Let's go out:
   • The streets all go steeply down hill from the main thoroughlanes, they twist and turn. 2009, George B. Bookman, Headlines, Deadlines and Lifelines, page 344:

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