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Main street

noun

Street that serves as a principal thoroughfare for traffic in a town. Synonym: high street.

Any small town (or the people who inhabit it); generally used to represent parochialism and materialism (after a novel by Sinclair Lewis).

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"Main street" Quotes from Famous Books

... the struggles of its early youth when our story begins, though there were gray-haired citizens yet within its borders who could tell how the bears had once looked in at their cabin windows, and the pine-trees had stood thick in what was now the main street of the rising town. ...

— The Boy Patriot • Edward Sylvester Ellis

... the carriage stopped at the district councillor's residence, which stood clear at the opposite end of the city. It was a simple, rather old-fashioned, frame-house with plaster between the timbers, and stood facing the main street, which led to the sea-baths, while its gable looked down upon a grove, between the city limits and the dunes, which was called the "Plantation." Furthermore this old-fashioned frame-house was only Innstetten's private ...

— The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 • Various

... shambles that stood at the top of the market-place, and in which three bullocks a week were killed by the six butchers, came down to be replaced by the unsightly building that now disfigures the main street of the town. It is a matter for surprise that the townsfolk did not utilise a valuable opportunity and put up in its place something that would have added to the attractiveness of the place and at the same time have commemorated the reign of Queen Victoria. ...

— The Evolution Of An English Town • Gordon Home

... schoolroom. We would rather stay all night supperless than dare the mysterious doctors supposed to be lying in wait for us. We had to go up a hill called the Davel Brae that lay between the schoolhouse and the main street. One evening just before dark, as we were running up the hill, one of the boys shouted, "A Dandy Doctor! A Dandy Doctor!" and we all fled pellmell back into the schoolhouse to the astonishment of Mungo Siddons, the teacher. I can remember ...

— The Story of My Boyhood and Youth • John Muir

... till they drew up in the main street of Stonehaven. Robert ran down to the harbour to make inquiry, and left Shargar to ...

— Robert Falconer • George MacDonald

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