Angiport

Quick meaning: Angiport is a noun meaning (obsolete) A narrow road passing between two houses or a row of houses, or an alley leading to a single house.

Meaning

(obsolete) A narrow road passing between two houses or a row of houses, or an alley leading to a single house.

Example Sentences

The unsavoury mass of slums packed away in the lower levels, with their coking labyrinth of lanes, 'angiports', and culs-de-sac, continued, with no general attempt to modify or purify, until the great Neronian conflagation swept an area at last for reconstruction.

"Here we are," said the artist of coffins, the last master of mortal ceremonies; "we are now near home, keep close to me through this passage, or you may miss me in the dark—we turn, mind you, to the left, along the river:" and darting down the “angiport,” he led the way to his retired abode.

Word Forms

• angiports

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include alley, alleyway, gangway, gitty, back alley, anteport.

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