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stubble-field en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of stubble field.
   alt of stubble field
   • […] out upon the flat plain, where the road ran straight as an arrow through the stubble-fields and parched meadows […] Artaban pressed onward until he arrived, at nightfall of the tenth day, beneath the shattered walls of populous Babylon. 1895, Henry Van Dyke, The Story of the Other Wise Man, pages 30–1:
   • In this case the illustration of burning up the stubble-field serves to convey theme 6, being disposed of like trash, and 2, referring to the completeness of the destruction, since there will be “no survivor.” 2013, J. Webb Mealy, The End of the Unrepentant: A Study of the Biblical Themes of Fire and Being Consumed, →ISBN, page 32:
   • The autumn drifted away through all its seasons. The golden corn-harvest, the walks through the stubble-fields, and rambles into hazel-copses in search of nuts; the stripping of the apple-orchards of their ruddy fruit, amid the joyous cries and shouts of watching children; and the gorgeous tulip-like colouring of the later time had now come on with the shortening days. 1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, “The Storm Bursts”, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, →OCLC, page 129:
   • Presently a steeple rose among the trees; we crossed a stubble-field, climbed to the top of a ditch and caught a glimpse of a few of dwellings: the village of Pomelin. 1904 [1874], Gustave Flaubert, anonymous translator, Over Strand and Field: A Record of Travel Through Brittany, page 58:

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