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Palouse

American  
[puh-loos] / pəˈlus /

noun

  1. a river in NW Idaho and SW Washington, flowing W and S to the Snake River. 140 miles (225 km) long.


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He has also worked to entice students to the campus in Moscow, a city in a remote area of the state called the Palouse, which is distinctive for its vast rolling hills covered in wheat.

From New York Times Mar. 2, 2024

We all know what they are: the majestic Cascade Range, towering evergreens, glorious rivers, the wide Palouse, the east-side shrub-steppe.

From Seattle Times Nov. 27, 2023

Stanford: The Cardinal showed lots of moxie in wet, ugly conditions on the Palouse.

From Washington Times Nov. 5, 2023

Instead, back home on the Palouse, he was trying to get his daughter to make him cookies.

From Seattle Times Oct. 13, 2023

But ever so little away from the barren valley bottom are rich regions of orchards and green fields, and easterly, in the countries of Walla Walla, Palouse, and John Day, far-reaching fields of grain abound.

From In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making by Putnam, George Palmer

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