veld
or veldt
the open country, bearing grass, bushes, or shrubs, or thinly forested, characteristic of parts of southern Africa.
Origin of veld
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How to use veld in a sentence
And we learn to love the great mountains and rich forests and unfenced steppes and veldts and prairies.
The Heart of Nature | Francis YounghusbandThe broad veldts over which Kruger's armies marched will be shown just as they are, with here and there a burgher's cottage.
The Boy's Book of New Inventions | Harry E. MauleIn 1881 they campaigned across the veldts against the Boers.
Our National Defense: | George Hebard MaxwellIn England there is an illimitable number of illimitable veldts.
A Miscellany of Men | G. K. Chesterton
British Dictionary definitions for veld
veldt
/ (fɛlt, vɛlt) /
Origin of veld
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