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Fairway

noun

The area between the tee and putting green where the grass is cut short.

The usual course taken by vessels through a harbor or coastal waters.

A tract of ground free of obstacles to movement.

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"Fairway" Quotes from Famous Books

... fell on the stream, and lights began to appear along the shore. The Chapman lighthouse, a three-legged thing erect on a mud-flat, shone strongly. Lights of ships moved in the fairway—a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper reaches the place of the monstrous town was still marked ominously on the sky, a brooding gloom in sunshine, a ...

— Heart of Darkness • Joseph Conrad

... Marmaduke Ruggles are two men; one has made an acceptable peer and one an acceptable valet, yet the twain are equal, and the system which has made one inferior socially to the other is false and bad and cannot endure." For a moment, I repeat, I saw myself a gentleman in the making—a clear fairway without bunkers from tee to green—meeting my equals with a friendly eye; and then the illumining shock, for I unconsciously added to myself, "Regarding my inferiors with a kindly tolerance." It was there I caught myself. So much a part of the system was I that, although I could readily conceive ...

— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson

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