Golden Arches

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Golden Arches
McDonald's restaurant (1953)

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Etymology

From the large yellow plastic logo of the letter M, from the design of the first restaurants, which incorporated large yellow arches.

Proper noun

Golden Arches

  1. A McDonald's restaurant.
    • 2022 October 5, Michael Paulson, “Suzan-Lori Parks Is on Broadway, Off Broadway and Everywhere Else”, in The New York Times:
      Suzan-Lori Parks is drawn to archways. Early on in her New York life, long before she became one of the nation’s most acclaimed playwrights, she lived above a McDonald’s on Sixth Avenue — the Golden Arches.
  2. (by extension) The McDonald's company, or the fast food industry in general.

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