thoroughway
nounEtymology From Middle English *thurghwei (attested in plural form thurghweies, thorouȝ-weies, þurȝ-weies), equivalent to thorough- + way. Doublet of throughway.
1
A way through, passageway.
- Only at Knossos we have to observe that for the convenience of the palace this corridor has become a thoroughway past the front of the shrine in either direction.1908, The Annual of the British School at Athens, volume 14, page 367:
2
A thoroughfare.
- Today the street is still a central thoroughway through the old city, though now converted to a pedestrian zone and called the Breite Herzog-Strasse.1998, Paul Spalding, Johann Lorenz Schmidt, Seize the Book, Jail the Author: