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corduroy road

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noun

  1. a road across swampy ground, made of logs laid transversely

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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But mainly the picture is as uneven as a war-torn corduroy road.

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Now down the corduroy road from the high ground and the village padded the stooped and broken father of a boy of this age.

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What you didn't mention is that the remainder of our highways have acquired the not so complimentary name of "Craig's corduroy road system" .

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On April 2, work on the corduroy road to the port, which had been suspended, was resumed under the capable supervision of D. E. Lowell.

From Pioneering in Cuba A Narrative of the Settlement of La Gloria, the First American Colony in Cuba, and the Early Experiences of the Pioneers by James Meade Adams

He set large forces of his men at work upon the road, paving it in the worst places with logs, making what is called in the South a corduroy road of it.

From Red Eagle and the Wars With the Creek Indians of Alabama. by George Cary Eggleston

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