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gangway

[gang-wey, gang-wey] / ˈgæŋˌweɪ, ˈgæŋˈweɪ /


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Gangway boards were placed at the top of a ship’s gangway as a greeting to sailors and visitors.

From Washington Post • Jan. 8, 2023

This winter, The Gangway, the oldest gay bar in town, is closing down.

From The Guardian • Feb. 2, 2016

During the Pisa visit as the King finished talking with a knot of Legionaries and turned to leave them, a U. S. voice boomed: "Gangway for the King!"

From Time Magazine Archive

Samuel Davis, 52, "Angel Gabriel" in Marc Connelly's The Green Pastures, who cries, "Gangway for the Lawd God Jehovah"; of heart disease; in Indianapolis.

From Time Magazine Archive

From one side or other of benches below Gangway sounds a single word: "Object!"

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 22, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir




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