camino real
Americannoun
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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
For several miles our route coincided with that of the camino real to San Miguel, and we rode along it gayly, in high and hopeful spirits.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 by Various
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
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 broad "camino real" sweeps three miles over sand dunes to the mission.
From The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance by Savage, Richard
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