Golden Arches

See also: golden arches

English

Golden Arches
McDonald's restaurant (1953)

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the large yellow plastic logo of the letter M, from the design of the first restaurants, which incorporated large yellow arches.

Proper noun

Golden Arches

  1. A McDonald's restaurant.
    • 2022 October 5, Michael Paulson, “Suzan-Lori Parks Is on Broadway, Off Broadway and Everywhere Else”, in The New York Times:
      Suzan-Lori Parks is drawn to archways. Early on in her New York life, long before she became one of the nation’s most acclaimed playwrights, she lived above a McDonald’s on Sixth Avenue — the Golden Arches.
  2. (by extension) The McDonald's company, or the fast food industry in general.

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