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walke-streets

walke-streets is the plural of walke-street.

Meaning of walke-street

Noun

walke-street (plural walke-streets)

  1. (obsolete) Someone who wanders aimlessly; a flaneur.
    • Bateur de pavez. An idle, or continuall walke-ſtreet; a jetter abroad in the ſtreets; one that ſees the towne ſerued when honeſt men are in bed; a laſciuious, or unthrifty, night-walker, generally, any looſe or mad youth, diſſolute or diſorderly yonker.1611, Randle Cotgrave, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, page BAT-BAT

Questions about walke-streets

What is walke-streets the plural of?
Walke-streets is the plural of walke-street.

Words near walke-streets in the dictionary

  1. Walkden
  2. Walkdens
  3. walkdown
  4. walke
  5. walke-street
  6. walke-streets
  7. walked
  8. walked a straight line
  9. walked all over
  10. walked and chewed gum at the same time
  11. walked around

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