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the highways and byways

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Definition

the roads and paths of a place: They travelled the highways and byways of Britain.Rural and suburban roadsPedestrian routes
(Definition of the highways and byways from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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