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corridor
corridor:
see
current
corridor (n.)
1590s, from French
corridor
(16c.), from Italian
corridore
"a gallery," literally "a runner," from
correre
"to run," from Latin
currere
(see
current
(adj.)). Originally of fortifications, meaning "long hallway" is first recorded 1814.