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clay road

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noun

  1. an unsealed and unmetalled road in a rural area

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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen traveled from a small farm on a rural red clay road to a ramen noodle manufacturing plant in Zambia’s bustling capitol of Lusaka on Tuesday to showcase Africa’s potential to help solve the world’s problems with food shortages.

From Seattle Times

Then the vehicle was driven 1,000 miles on a clay road, followed by 500 miles on a sand course.

From Washington Post

A motorist found the family in the middle of a clay road in the Ocala National Forest on Saturday morning.

From Seattle Times

The Marion County Sheriff’s Office got the call Saturday morning after a motorist found Farias and 32-year-old Jessica Johnson of Wisconsin, and their 1-year-old daughter, lying in the middle of a remote clay road in the Ocala National Forest.

From Seattle Times

PITTS, Ga. — There may be more improbable culinary trails than the one that leads from a red clay road here in the country’s most prolific peanut-growing state to Beyoncé’s plate at the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles.

From New York Times