road book

British

noun

a book of maps, sometimes including a gazetteer

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In normal years, he would have been poring over the road book since the route being unveiled last October, trying to work out his best chances of stage wins.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 26, 2021

One observation: using the map on the screen’s considerable space felt like the digital version of a road book map splayed across the dash.

From The Verge ● Sep. 8, 2017

But she had never stopped travelling, and she wasn’t about to now, with a road book planned.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 19, 2015

Maybe “Don Quixote” would qualify as a Spanish road book.

From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2013

The hand-writing in that road book certainly was as extremely like the Dover letter as ever I saw any thing in my life.

From The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814 by Gurney, William Brodie

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