king's highway

American  

Or King's highway,

noun

British.

1. a highway built by the national government.

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king's highway British  

noun

1. (in Britain, esp when the sovereign is male) any public road or right of way

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Example Sentences

We left these people, while making this digression, on the king's highway severing forever the strong ties that bound them to the land and the people of their birth.

From Some Pioneers and Pilgrims on the Prairies of Dakota Or, From the ox team to the aeroplane by Reese, H. B.

The tramways, the light railways, and the railways must be regarded as the modern form of the king's highway.

From British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals by Barker, J. Ellis

We will go along by the king's highway.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

So he squanders money along the king’s highway, the triple idiot! gorging every man he meets with gold for the pleasure of arriving—where?

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Sakhī:         The citizens are waking on the king's highway, Rays of the moon light up the dome of earth: No peace in new-born love,— I am amazed to see you.

From Vidy?pati: Bang?ya pad?bali; songs of the love of R?dh? and Krishna by Vidy?pati Th?kura