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noun

Alley n. (pl. alleys)

A narrow passage; especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes; a bordered way. "I know each lane and every alley green."

A narrow passage or way in a city, as distinct from a public street.

A passageway between rows of pews in a church.

(Persp.) Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.

The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.

Alley n. (pl. alleys) A choice taw or marble.

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Etymology of 'Alley'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Alley" Quotes from Famous Books

... head of an alley-way hard by the Place of the Temple, the Haram-esh-Sherif, in Jerusalem, a long wall built in rough-hewn courses lifts itself above the squalor of the Moghrebin quarter to an eastern sky from which a sun that seldom sleeps bakes the grey stones, bares every detail of a crumbling ruin, and intensifies ...

— The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 • Various

... liquor, but I was intimately in contact with drinkers and drinking places. The only reason I did not drink was because I didn't like the stuff. As the time passed, I worked as boy-helper on an ice-wagon, set up pins in a bowling alley with a saloon attached, and swept out saloons at Sunday ...

— John Barleycorn • Jack London

... two over-bulging cargoes, that their nature might not be disclosed to the curious, and, after listening a moment at his door, took the baskets, one upon each arm, then went quickly down the stairs and out of the house, out of the yard, and into the alley—by which route he had ...

— Seventeen - A Tale Of Youth And Summer Time And The Baxter Family Especially William • Booth Tarkington

... the cross-roads and the Bald-faced Stag at the corner. Not a scrap changed since the last time he visited it—day when he rode the Major's roan mare slap through the saloon bar into the bowling-alley. Did it for a bet, and won it, too, and bought his mother a stuffed badger in a glass case with the money, as a ...

— The Return of the Prodigal • May Sinclair

... their feast and betook themselves to dancing, in an alley smoothed for a croquet-ground and to the sound of a violin played by the old grandfather of one of the party. While Mrs. Braefield was busying herself with forming the dance, Kenelm seized the occasion to escape from a young nymph of the age of twelve, who had sat next to him at the banquet ...

— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 6 • Various

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