corduroy road

noun

a road across swampy ground, made of logs laid transversely

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How to use corduroy road in a sentence

The blazed trail gave way to the corduroy road, and the pack horse to the oxcart or the stage.
The Canadian Dominion | Oscar D. Skelton
I saw one stately creature in a white silk ball costume, his stockings splashed to the knees with mud from the corduroy road.
Lazarre | Mary Hartwell Catherwood
The three-mile trail which led from the village would have been easier to travel could it have boasted a corduroy road.
McClure's Magazine, January, 1896, Vol. VI. No. 2 | Various
Passing up a valley between lofty hills, noticed a corduroy road made of transverse trunks of trees, as seen in Canada.
Through Siberia and Manchuria By Rail | Oliver George Ready
She did begin to talk about the many ribbons and the many ruffles the new woman wears that lives up the corduroy road.
The Story of Opal | Opal Whiteley

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