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prairion
< Cdn F prairillon, dim. of prairie
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a small tract of grassland; a small meadow.
Quotations
1811
The country about the house is in general wooded with small prairions at intervals of a mile or more.
1833
Our course lay through rich & level prairies and prairions or smaller plains, separated from each other by belts of wood. . . .
1953
A little stream wound down the valley center, widening here and there into ponds and small green prairillons. In one of these meadows, about two-thirds of a mile away, a herd of two thousand buffaloes were pasturing on the aromatic bunch grass.