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Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Preferred Term

roads

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General term referring to all long outdoor passages used by and generally created by humans, intended to allow people to pass between different places, usually one wide enough to admit of the passage of wheeled vehicles, horses, or travellers on foot.

Variations

Roads, gravel

Dirt roads

Roads, brick

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