highroad

See also: high road

English

Noun

highroad (plural highroads)

  1. Alternative form of high road (“a main road or highway”).
    • 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 119:
      In most parts of [ancient Italy] women were forbidden to walk on the highroads twirling a spindle, because this was supposed to injure the crops.
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