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corduroy road

British  

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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" .

From Time Magazine Archive

We drive over long stretches of old corduroy road, the planks now much rotted.

From Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway by Gladding, Effie Price

One dreary stretch of swamp that kept us on the corduroy road behind the jolting wagon I remember well; this was near Crawfordsville, Indiana.

From Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail by Wilson, F. N. (Frederick N.)

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