fenland
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of fenland
Example Sentences
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Both burst their banks into an area of drained fenland that was already sodden from rain over a period of weeks.
From BBC • Jan. 6, 2020
"Fishlake is on the edge of the Great Humberhead levels which was a massive fenland and huge peat bog until the 1700s," said Prof Ian Rotherham from Sheffield Hallam University.
From BBC • Nov. 12, 2019
The charred earthenware, excavated from the Cambridgeshire fenland, looks unremarkable, but the manner of its storage reveals new things about the past.
From Economist • Aug. 4, 2016
Then there's the fenland, which in winter converts to wonderful marshland, attracting arctic and subarctic wildfowl and geese.
From The Guardian • Jan. 30, 2013
I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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