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back road

noun

a little-used secondary road, especially one through a rural or sparsely populated area.

An Americanism dating back to 1780–90

Haryopratomo spoke of a woman he met while riding his motorcycle on a back road in rural Indonesia.

Our beach path was impassable, we found another way on the back road.

The road is what is called a "back road," and leads through woods most of the way.

Through taking the back road, I was so fortunate as to meet nobody, and arrived there uninterrupted.

So it was this young lady that we saw coming tearing down the back road, as they called it, that led over the Pretty Plain.

I drove way round the other way, up the back road, and unloaded him at Henry's house.

Instead of walking through Deerbrook, she took a back road homewards, and drew down her veil.

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