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Barren(s)
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n. — (usually plural)
the inhospitable tundra, of northern Canada.
Quotations
1896
None but the younger and hardiest and most experienced Indians go into the Barrens, and to be a musk-ox hunter is their highest conception of courage and skill and endurance.
1961
Skeleton track [was laid] across the "Barrens" to Churchill, spring 1929. . . .