angiport

English

Etymology

From the Latin angiportus.

Noun

angiport (plural angiports)

  1. (obsolete) A narrow road passing between two houses or a row of houses, or an alley leading to a single house.
    • 1841, Charles Whitehead, “The Coffin-Maker of Drogheda”, in The Library of Fiction: Or, Family Story-teller, page 246:
      "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.
    • 1894, The Edinburgh Review, volume 179, page 87:
      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.
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