Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An excursion, expedition, or foray: opposed to inroad.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete An excursion.
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Examples
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As he was speaking this, they perceived six hundred and threescore light horsemen, gallantly mounted, who made an outroad thither to see what ship it was that was newly arrived in the harbour, and came in a full gallop to take them if they had been able.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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As he was speaking this, they perceived six hundred and threescore light horsemen, gallantly mounted, who made an outroad thither to see what ship it was that was newly arrived in the harbour, and came in a full gallop to take them if they had been able.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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As he was speaking this, they perceived six hundred and threescore light horsemen, gallantly mounted, who made an outroad thither to see what ship it was that was newly arrived in the harbour, and came in a full gallop to take them if they had been able.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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‘outroad’ (Holland) has disappeared; ‘levant’ lives, but ‘ponent’
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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