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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

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

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

One note of discord came from little group below Gangway on Liberal side.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 26, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir




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