"backtrail" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1975, Dale E. Peterson, The clement vision: poetic realism in Turgenev and James, page 100",
          "text": "The path of renunciation has many sideroads. It is all the more tragic that the radiant Christina Light becomes so benighted in defeat as to pursue moral backtrails out of a bored self-abandon.",
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        "A small path or trail that is not used regularly."
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          "ref": "2009, John Norman, The King, page 306",
          "text": "They waited there for some five minutes when, suddenly, on the backtrail, perhaps a half mile or more behind them, there were three flashes, sudden and bright, one after the other, brilliant in the cold, pure air.",
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          "text": "When it was light enough we climbed a mesa, winding around the far side before coming up to watch our backtrail.",
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        "The path over which one has already traveled."
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          "text": "He reshouldered his rifle. \"Want to backtrail with me?\"",
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          "text": "I hoped Carson knew where he was going, because there was no room to backtrail here.",
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