backway

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English

Etymology

From back +‎ way.

Noun

backway (plural backways)

  1. A back alley.
    • 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge(please specify the chapter number)”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, London: Chapman & Hall, , →OCLC:
      Gliding along the silent streets, and holding his course where they were darkest and most gloomy, the man who had left the widow's house crossed London Bridge, and arriving in the City, plunged into the backways, lanes, and courts []

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