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burned country
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a tract of forest or prairie swept by fire.
See: burnt land(s)(def. 1)
Quotations
<i>c</i>1665
It's such a country that the french calls it ye burned country 20 miles about, and in many places the same is to be seene where there weare forests.
1930
About half way there, we reached the burnt country, over which the prairie fire had swept. . . .
1963
After the dreary burnt country, the hay flats and bunch-grass hillsides of the valley were a . . . relief. . . .