road allowance
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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At the road allowance where his Métis family had settled 150 years earlier, first in tents and later in log cabins, Jesse fell to his knees.
From BBC
The old people called it the New Road Allowance.
From Literature
I’d seen the Great Lakes: Ontario when we were in the city and Huron when we lived on the New Road Allowance.
From Literature
"Plumb down that road allowance, thirty-two miles, straight as the crow flies, when it ain't Sittin'," he threw in with a little snicker.
From Project Gutenberg
Immedjut west of us is a road allowance, runnin' north an' south.
From Project Gutenberg
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