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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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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 John L. Stephens

The broad "camino real" sweeps three miles over sand dunes to the mission.

From The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance by Richard Savage

"But stop one moment yet, amigo," and he pointed to a cross-road which, a little further on, diverged from the camino real, "where does that lead to?"

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various

We went first to those on the opposite side of the camino real.

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

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