Meaning of backtrail | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A small path or trail that is not used regularly.
2. The path over which one has already traveled.

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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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