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hill country

British  

noun

  1. (in North Island) elevated pasture land for sheep or cattle

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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He turns Joy Division’s emotionally strident “Love Will Tear Us Apart” into a day-dreamy road trip through Texas hill country.

From New York Times Apr. 1, 2024

She lives in the ward he represented, a remote rural community set in the undulating hill country of KwaZulu-Natal.

From BBC Dec. 3, 2023

Just before school started, I took my kids on a mini vacation to the Texas hill country.

From Scientific American Sep. 8, 2023

The new law could not have come soon enough for Native American activists whose ancestors lived in the hill country on the western flanks of the Sierra Nevada range for millennia.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 25, 2022

You’ve been up Kindcreek Road before; it cuts through a wild patch of hill country, flanked by fruiting prickly pears and disheveled oak.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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