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Definition of Great White Way
: a street brilliantly lighted at night and devoted chiefly to public amusements (as theaters)
their Great White Ways flooded with pleasure-seekers — Yale Review theaters flanking a dozen Great White Ways — Landscape
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The first known use of Great White Way was in 1902
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