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camino real

American  
[kah-mee-naw re-ahl] / kɑˈmi nɔ rɛˈɑl /

noun

Spanish.
caminos reales plural
  1. a main road; highway.


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noun

Etymology

Origin of camino real

Literally, “royal road”

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

It was the camino real between Merida and Campeachy, and would pass in any country for a fair carriage-road.

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

The road upon which we entered turned off abruptly from the camino real.

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

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 Lumholtz, Carl

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