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bas-fond
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
See 1897 quote.
Quotations
1811
We drove briskly until sunrise, which found us at the bas fond where our horses wintered.
1877
. . . the sinuous trail . . . led across grassy bas-fonds under the shadow of the mountains. . . .
1897
Basfond is hardly a geographical name, being applicable to any piece of low land along a river or about a lake; it is used here in the same sense as we use bottom.