camino real
Americannoun
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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
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 Stephens, John L.
This highway was known as the camino real.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various
"But stop one moment yet, amigo," and he pointed to a cross-road which, a little further on, diverged from the camino real, "where does that lead to?"
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
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 Stephens, John L.
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