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hill country

British  

noun

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

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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

The rawness and the imperfections were something they learned from those influential sounds of ’70s-era experimental rock and hill country blues.

From Seattle Times May 10, 2022

Abilene was better than six hundred miles north of the Texas hill country we lived in.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

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