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Silk Road

ancient trade route extending from China to the Mediterranean

Etymology: from the fact that silk was China's primary export

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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