throughfare

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throughfare (plural throughfares)

  1. Obsolete form of thoroughfare.
    • c. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, act 1, scene 3:
      Hurt him? His body's a passable carcass, if he be / not hurt. It is a throughfare for steel, if it be not hurt.