camino real
Americannoun
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caminos reales
plural
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of camino real
Literally, “royal road”
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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
A narrow path brought us out into the camino real, along which we passed several small ranchos of sugar-cane.
From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. by John L. Stephens
The raiders had approached San Antonio de los Banos across the fields at the rear, but Colonel Lopez led their retreat by way of the camino real which followed the riverbank.
From Rainbow's End by Rex Ellingwood Beach
The ruins are nine leagues from Valladolid, the camino real to which passes directly through the field.
From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. by John L. Stephens
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
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