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/trəŋk roʊd/ Listen

Trunk road

noun

A highway. Synonym: highroad.

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"Trunk road" Quotes from Famous Books

... Imperial India as it is revealed to Western eyes—priests, peasants, soldiers, civilians, people of the plains and hills, women of the latticed palanquin and the bazaar, Hindu and Mohammedan, Afghan and Bengali. The picture of the Grand Trunk Road in Kim is an almost unsurpassed piece of descriptive writing. The diversity of the picture dazzles and bewilders us at first. Then out of all this diversity there gradually comes a conviction that fundamentally ...

— Rudyard Kipling • John Palmer

... unanimity dear to patriot hearts All those hairy gentlemen out of foreign parts Said: "The good old days are back—let us go to war!" Swaggered down the Grand Trunk Road into ...

— Departmental Ditties and Barrack Room Ballads • Rudyard Kipling

Words linked to "Trunk road" : Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Great Britain, United Kingdom, UK, highway, main road, U.K.