"high road" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 6, in The Black Arrow",
          "text": "There, a few yards before them, was the high road from Risingham to Shoreby, lying, at this point, between two even walls of forest.",
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        "(chiefly British) A main road or highway."
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