camino
Americannoun
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caminos
plural
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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
One day a four-year-old boy, seeing the fireplace in the room, wrote "camino."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The next day we followed for some time the camino real, which leads from Acaponeta to the towns of Mezquital and Durango.
From Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan by Carl Lumholtz
We didn’t hear of him for a long time; and then we were told that he had taken to the camino real—had become, as I’ve said, a salteador.”
From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Mayne Reid
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 William Harbutt Dawson
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 John L. Stephens
And had not her deceased husband been comisionado de caminos y puentes for the district?
From Cabbages and Kings by O. Henry
Government undertakes the cost and the super-intendence of the caminos reales, and does it well.
From Spanish Life in Town and Country by William Harbutt Dawson
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 Daniel Garrison Brinton
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