by-street

[ bahy-street ]

/ ˈbaɪˌstrit /

a side street or a private or obscure street; byway.

Origin of by-street

First recorded in 1665–75; by- + street

The trio lived together in a little house, in a by-street in Bloomsbury.

The Mark of the Beast |Sidney Watson
In this main thoroughfare it was not as in the by-street, and only dull or sullen glances, or none at all, were bent on her.

Fraternity |John Galsworthy
In a by-street in the Borough, over against a dead wall and under a railway bridge, we were blocked for four hours.

The Letters of Charles Dickens |Charles Dickens
Out of the Clapham Road we turned into a by-street of two-storeyed houses.

Paul Kelver |Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome

I then entered a by-street which I had never entered before.

The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. |Anonymous