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roads
  • carfax, carrefour - A carfax or carrefour is a place where (usually four) roads or streets meet, from French carrefurcs, from Latin quadrifurcus, "four forks."
  • multivious - Having many paths or roads.
  • invious - Describes something that is pathless or without roads.
  • jiggle-bars, rumble strips - The rough spots intentionally created on the sides of roads to alert drivers are jiggle-bars or rumble strips.
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    Noun1.roads - a partly sheltered anchorageroads - a partly sheltered anchorage        
    anchorage ground, anchorage - place for vessels to anchor


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After a while, they came to the place where five roads branched in different directions; Dorothy pointed to one, and said:
Nevertheless, that legend has stuck in my mind, and sunflower-bordered roads always seem to me the roads to freedom.
At that time, too, all the roads in the neighbourhood of the metropolis were infested by footpads or highwaymen, and it was a night, of all others, in which any evil- disposed person of this class might have pursued his unlawful calling with little fear of detection.
 
 
 
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