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Great White Way   Listen
noun
Great White Way  n.  Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters, as from about 30th Street to about 50th Street; so called from its brilliant illumination at night.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Great White Way" Quotes from Famous Books



... restless, tired of New York, tired of dancing, tired of everything. Broadway was full of people hurrying to the theatres. Cars rattled by. All the electric lights in the world were blazing down on the Great White Way. And it all seemed ...
— The Man with Two Left Feet - and Other Stories • P. G. Wodehouse

... recherche gastronomical joys. With appetites keen for the succulent, if always indigestible, dainties of after-theatre suppers, they sought the hospitable portals of Gotham's splendidly appointed lobster palaces which, scattered in amazing profusion along the Great White Way, their pretentious facades flamboyantly ablaze with light, seemed so many oases of luxurious comfort set down in the ...
— The Easiest Way - A Story of Metropolitan Life • Eugene Walter and Arthur Hornblow



Words linked to "Great White Way" :   Broadway



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