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valleyland en · NOUN

Etymology

From valley + land.

Meanings

1. Land located in a valley.
   • […] a receding valleyland of blacks and purples where an unrippled river flows unseen between shadowy banks of grapes that are never eaten. 1965, John Updike, Of the Farm, Random House, published 2012, page 34:
   • It was a green valleyland dotted with trees through which he caught the gleam of a river that wound away roughly to the Northwest. 1954, C. S. Lewis, chapter 12, in The Horse and His Boy, Collins, published 1998:
   • Love lay on the mountain-tops beyond the valley-land of reason. 1909, Jack London, chapter 23, in Martin Eden:

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