DCHP-3

interior

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n. — Hist.

See Indian country (def. 2) 1948 quote.

See: Indian country(def. 2)

Quotations

1800
The goods intended for the interiour, or upper countries, are here put on board of canoes.
1855
. . . you will have heard that the spring brigade is to leave in a few days for the interior.
1927
The stage on which this romantic drama was enacted covered more than half a continent, and was variously referred to in the literature of the fur-trade as le pays d'En Haut, the Indian Territory, the Interior, and by a more recent public as the North-West.
2n.

that part of British Columbia lying inland, particularly the more southern portion between the Coastal Ranges and the Rocky Mountains.

Quotations

1927
As this was the first one [orthophonic Victrola] imported into the interior, it caused great interest. . . .
1964
. . . the controversial Freedomites . . . had been blamed for violence in the Interior for years.