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Of or pertaining to the professional theaters in Manhattan not in the Broadway area performed in off Broadway1...
Broadway
a street in Manhattan famous for its restaurants and its theaters in the Times Square area At its intersection with Seventh Avenue it forms Times Square an area with impressive displays of bright lights particularly advertising it is considered by some to be the cultural center of New York City...
Great White Way
Broadway in New York City in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters as from about 30th Street to about 50th Street so called from its brilliant illumination at night...
Lada
Lada [fr. lathian, Sax.], a lath, or inferior Court of justice; also a course of water, or a broadway.Means purgation, exculpation. There were three kinds: (1) That wherein the accused cleared himself by his own oath, supported by the oaths of his consacramentals (compurgators), according to the number of which the lada was said to be either simple or three-fold; (2) Ordeal; (3) Corsned. See CORSNED BREAD.Means also, a service which consisted in supplying the lord with beasts of burden; or, as defined by Roquefort: Service qu'un vassal devoit a son seigneur, et qui consistoit a faire quelques voyages par ses betes de somme, Anc. Inst. Eng....
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