chemin

le chemin (FR N-M) way leading from one place to another, distance between locations, direction, way towards, path. First appears in French in 1080, from popular Latin or Gallic camminus. (Anouilh, Banville, Debussy, Eluard, Hugo, Lhermite, Mallarmé, Mirmont, Musset, Silvestre, van Lerberghe, Verlaine, Vilmorin)