Also 8–9 bye-street. [f. BY- 3 b + STREET.] A street out of the main thoroughfare; a side street, lying out of the way, and hence less frequented.
1672. Dryden, Prol. Women (Globe), 412. In sum by-street To take a lodging.
1704. Lond. Gaz., No. 4029/2. They were to watch him at the turning of a certain By-street.
1780. Coxe, Russ. Discov., 216. It has two principal streets … with two by-streets running South.
1880. Browning, Dram. Idyls, Pietro, 38. Padua’s blackest blindest bye-street.
