Silk Road

Proper noun

the Silk Road

1. (historical) An extensive interconnected network of trade routes across Asia, North and Northeast Africa, and Europe, historically used by silk traders.
   • China had received with more or less good grace the flood of Buddhist missionaries but had long since sent out her own missionaries— priests, not of a transcendental religion of salvation, but of a secular way of life, of a worldly and refined civilization. Expansion in Turkestan and Central Asia...1958, Amaury de Riencourt, “The Moonlight Civilizations”, in The Soul of China, Revised edition, Harper & Row, published 1965, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 109-110
   • The ancient "silk road" is now replaced by the newly-built Karakoram Highway linking China and Pakistan.[1978 June 19 [1978 June 18], Li Yun-fei, “'Silk Road' Replaced by New Highway”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 118, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from...