DCHP-3

bluff country

Prairie Provinces
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the lightly wooded, grassy belt of rich land lying between the open prairie and the northern forests in the three Prairie Provinces; also, similar but smaller areas of lightly wooded rolling grasslands, as the Peace River country.

See: parkland(s)(def. 1)

Quotations

1886
This piece of land, on which there are some 800 Indians, is one of the finest of bluff country in the world.
1964
Some forty steps away it [a wolf] lowered its head and stopped; then it turned and moved into higher bluff country.