Meanings
plural angiports
- obsoleteA narrow road passing between two houses or a row of houses, or an alley leading to a single house.
The unsavoury mass of slums packed away in the lower levels, with their coking labyrinth of lanes, 'angiports', and culs-de-sac, continued, with no general attempt to modify or purify, until the great Neronian conflagation swept an area at last for reconstruction.
1894, The Edinburgh Review, volume 179, page 871 more example
"Here we are," said the artist of coffins, the last master of mortal ceremonies; "we are now near home, keep close to me through this passage, or you may miss me in the dark—we turn, mind you, to the left, along the river:" and darting down the “angiport,” he led the way to his retired abode.
1841, Charles Whitehead, “The Coffin-Maker of Drogheda”, in The Library of Fiction: Or, Family Story-teller, page 246
Origin
- Latinangiportus
- Englishangiport
From the Latin angiportus.
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