camino real
Americannoun
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caminos reales
plural
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of camino real
Literally, “royal road”
Example Sentences
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But when he was in his prime Taxco was an important trading town on the transcontinental camino real, along which the trade of Spain and the Orient was transshipped.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ruins are nine leagues from Valladolid, the camino real to which passes directly through the field.
From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. by John L. Stephens
In half an hour we came into a clear and open country, and at ten we entered the camino real for Jalacho, a broad and open road, passable for calesas.
From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by John L. Stephens
The broad "camino real" sweeps three miles over sand dunes to the mission.
From The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance by Richard Savage
For several miles our route coincided with that of the camino real to San Miguel, and we rode along it gayly, in high and hopeful spirits.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 by Various
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