shell road

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shell road (plural shell roads)

  1. (US) A road with a bed or other layer made from shells.
    • 2005, Chris Rose, 1 Dead in Attic, Simon & Schuster, published 2015, page 22:
      You know, the kind of New Orleans rain that […] tamps down the dust of the old shell roads and washes down the oyster stink in the French Quarter gutters and slicks up all the playground equipment and makes New Orleans smell—is it possible?—so fresh.

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