Golden Arches

See also: golden arches

English

Golden Arches

McDonald's restaurant (1953)

Alternative forms

• golden arches

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^[1]:

     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.

See also

• Maccas (Australian)
• McDonaldization
• McJob
• McWorld
• Mickey D
• Mickey D's