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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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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

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 ten sentences of his in a row hurt like a corduroy road.

From The Critical Game by Macy, John Albert

A rough and partly decayed corduroy road had been made years before, but now it provided no very secure footing.

From The Young Sharpshooter at Antietam by Tomlinson, Everett T. (Everett Titsworth)

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