The Collaborative International Dictionary
Great White Way
Great White Way \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.
Usage examples of "great white way".
The whole side of this building was walled up to afford a background for one of the Great White Way’.
Weak, watery, lips dry and cracked, it lit up the room, put a glow over Manhattan beside which the bright lights of the Great White Way paled.
Manhattan beside which the bright lights of the Great White Way paled.