fenland

[ fen-land, -luhnd ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Origin of fenland¹

They had watched the triumphant army pass, setting the dull fenland ablaze with color as it moved.

It only occurs in fenland, chiefly Norfolk and Cambridgeshire.

The Crane was in a spit of open woodland, with before him and on either side deep fenland with paths known only to its dwellers.

Starting from the Cam at Clayhithe it runs along the whole western limit of the fenland.

They are respectively (p. 297) four and twelve furlongs from the stream, and mark successive boundaries of the fenland waters.

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