Definition of "by-street" [by•-street]

• A separate, private, or obscure street; an out of the way or cross street. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "Presently she came to a by-street, spread with carpets and lighted with hanging lamps, and heard a noise of singing-women and drumming of tambourines."
• "So I braced myself up and heartened my heart and went out and walked on till I came to the by-street, where I sat down on the bench awhile."
• "Then he turned aside into a handsome by-street, followed by the young woman, and walked on till he came to the end, when he found it was no thoroughfare and exclaimed, There is no Majesty and there is no Might save in Allah, the Glorious, the"