road allowance

noun

1. land reserved by the government to be used for public roads

Example Sentences

At the road allowance where his Métis family had settled 150 years earlier, first in tents and later in log cabins, Jesse fell to his knees.

From BBC

At the road allowance where his Métis family had settled 150 years earlier, first in tents and later in log cabins, Jesse fell to his knees.

From BBC

The old people called it the New Road Allowance.

From Literature

I’d seen the Great Lakes: Ontario when we were in the city and Huron when we lived on the New Road Allowance.

From Literature

"Plumb down that road allowance, thirty-two miles, straight as the crow flies, when it ain't Sittin'," he threw in with a little snicker.

From Project Gutenberg