Meanings
nounthroughfare (plural throughfares)
plural throughfares
- obsoleteObsolete form of thoroughfare.
Hurt him? His body's a passable carcass, if he be / not hurt. It is a throughfare for steel, if it be not hurt.
c. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, act 1, scene 3
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