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spruce barrens

Maritimes

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a tract of peat moss or muskeg.

See: barren(s)(def. 1b)

Quotations

1849

[We] saw some good land and some spruce barrens or swamps. I wondered . . . what end these spongy plains could answer, producing neither trees nor grass, but only wet moss on a sandy bottom. . . .

1925

[I wonder] who is sleeping in my old room there, and if any one is loving the little birches and playing with the Wind Woman in the spruce barrens. . . .