DCHP-3

high prairies

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an elevated plateau or a series of such plateaus having the appearance of a range of hills or ridges when viewed from the adjacent prairie.

See: coteau(def. 2)

Quotations

1900
In the fifties there were years when as many as fifteen hundred carts and waggons and more than two thousand men, women, and children came to the time-honoured trysting-place on the high prairies about two days' journey from Fort Garry.