single yellow line

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English

Noun

single yellow line (plural single yellow lines)

  1. (UK) A single yellow line painted at the side of a road to show that parking is permitted only at specified times.
    • 1989, Melvin Dixon, Trouble the Water:
      She hugged the single yellow line, but she drove fast.
    • 1999, Ruth Rendell, A Sight for Sore Eyes:
      He knew it would be risky parking on a double yellow line, or even a single yellow line, at this hour, but in a side street off the back of Kensington Church Street he found areas demarcated on the roadway with white lines.
    • 2006, Peter James, Looking Good Dead:
      At half past eleven, Roy Grace parked his Alfa Romeo on a single yellow line outside the unlit shop window of a dealer specializing in retro twentieth-century furniture.
    • 2007, Barrie Segal, The Parking Ticket Awards: Crazy Councils, Meter Madness and Traffic Warden Hell:
      The postman in question was parked on a single yellow line with parking-time restrictions.

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