fjeld
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of fjeld
From Norwegian, dating back to 1855–60; see origin at fell 5
Example Sentences
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Between meals we made up small parties, going this way and that on the sides of the fjeld and in the woods.
From Look Back on Happiness by Paula Wiking
Over the cornices of the mountain-walls, hovering at least two thousand feet above, gleamed here and there the scattered snowy jötuns of the highest fjeld.
From Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland by Bayard Taylor
“We have come far across the fjeld, and have fasted long.”
From Three in Norway by Two of Them by Walter J. Clutterbuck
And the master of the house himself went with him across the fjeld, and as for Solem, why, he, too, went with him so that he might know the way for later tourists.
From Look Back on Happiness by Paula Wiking
None so pretty as I!' and so on through a long list of the birds of fjeld and sea.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Jane Addams
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