foothills

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n. pl.

the rounded, rolling hills, largely grassland, lying between the prairies and the Rocky Mountains proper.

Quotations

1853

. . . the great prairies stretch westward, even to the "foot-hills" (piedmont) of the Rocky Mountains.

1916

The outward trail over the prairie petering off into the foot-hills and the Rockies is to him not a mere waggon road. . . .

1966

The scheme would trap water in the Rocky Mountains and foothills of western Alberta and distribute them [sic] eastward to the Saskatchewan border.