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‖ carretera|kareˈtera|
[Sp.]
A main road.
[1845R. Ford Handbk. Spain I. i. 12 The cross roads and minor roads of Spain are bad... They are divided into those which are practicable for wheel-carriages ‘camino carretero’, ‘de carruage’, ‘carretera’, and those which are only bridle-roads.] 1900Engineering Mag. XIX. 683 A carretera, or macadamized road is the ‘best road’ or route of the ‘fast mail’ in Porto Rico. 1923Blackw. Mag. Aug. 178/1 The extreme provincialism of the Spanish carratera. 1924Ibid. June 804/2 Very pretty they look sailing slowly along the dusty carretara to do the day's marketing. 1958L. R. Muirhead Blue Guide to Northern Spain (ed. 2) p. cxlii, Apart from the Carreteras Nacionales, however, many of the roads are stony and often under repair. |