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camino

American  
[ka-mee-noh] / kæˈmi noʊ /

noun

caminos plural
  1. a pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

  2. 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

Leaving the camino real, we turned again into a milpa path, and in about an hour came in sight of another ruined city, known by the name of Ytsimpte.

From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. by Stephens, John L.

Our direction was south, on the camino real to Bolonchen.

From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by Stephens, John L.

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

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.

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

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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