corduroy road
Britishnoun
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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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But mainly the picture is as uneven as a war-torn corduroy road.
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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" .
From Time Magazine Archive
It was mostly a wilderness country, and, though generally level, much of it was a bog, which could only be made passable by laying down a corduroy road.
From Burgoyne's Invasion of 1777 With an outline sketch of the American Invasion of Canada, 1775-76. by Samuel Adams Drake
In a wooded country the usual method is by corduroy road.
From War from the Inside The Story of the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion, 1862-1863 by Frederick L. (Frederick Lyman) Hitchcock
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