camino
Americannoun
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a pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.
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any pilgrimage route through Spain.
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It was called “El Camino” because, with some liberties, the path supposedly followed the camino, the route, of the mission-building Franciscan priest Junipero Serra.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2023
But when he was in his prime Taxco was an important trading town on the transcontinental camino real, along which the trade of Spain and the Orient was transshipped.
From Time Magazine Archive
One day a four-year-old boy, seeing the fireplace in the room, wrote "camino."
From Time Magazine Archive
Brannan and Leidesdorff watched them galloping down the camino ten minutes later under the guidance of a smart young corporal.
From Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts by Stellman, Louis J. (Louis John)
Yonder is the camino," said the countryman, pointing into the valley; "it will lead you to the main road; and there"—he turned to the northward—"is Matanzas.
From Rainbow's End by Beach, Rex Ellingwood
Government undertakes the cost and the super-intendence of the caminos reales, and does it well.
From Spanish Life in Town and Country by Dawson, William Harbutt
The reader has some idea of the caminos reales of this country, and they were all like English turnpikes compared with that upon which we entered on leaving this rancho.
From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. by Stephens, John L.
And had not her deceased husband been comisionado de caminos y puentes for the district?
From Cabbages and Kings by Henry, O.
It is he who speaks of the "doce caminos por el mar."
From American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
In contrast to Portugal, the caminos reales, or high-roads, of Spain have long been very good.
From Spanish Life in Town and Country by Dawson, William Harbutt
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