bottom land
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bottom land
An Americanism dating back to 1720–30
Example Sentences
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Porter, invested her earnings judiciously in rich river bottom land, business properties and lucrative mortgages.
From Washington Post • Sep. 3, 2022
Construction was supposed to be finished in 2008 but the completion date slipped repeatedly, partly because millions of tons of earth had to be trucked in to fill flood-prone bottom land.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2019
The rich have long claimed higher ground along waterways, and that left freed slaves to claim bottom land that made Princeville into the country’s first town incorporated by black Americans.
From Washington Times • Sep. 12, 2018
The first divided the tidewater, low country, and river bottom land from the piedmont and similar upland districts.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
Once I ran into a flat piece of bottom land, and what seemed solid earth by the light of the moon was a marshy quagmire.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
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