noun
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the right to graze or the business of grazing cattle
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another word for pasture
Etymology
Origin of pasturage
Example Sentences
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Here in rural Somalia, where about 50% of the people depend on animals for their livelihoods, the locusts are eating the pasturage.
From Washington Times • Feb. 9, 2020
Its thin, rocky soil favored pasturage over wheat fields, so New Englanders raised livestock and caught codfish instead.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
He gave form to “the heavenly pasturage our minds can find in things,” is how Proust once put it.
From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2010
For Grass, a monumental record of Kurdish tribesmen's annual search for pasturage, the team went before the nomads in order to get the right angles for their scenes.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this way, I hope to spread among others the gifts lavished upon me for my pains in the College of Lucidity; to loose knowledge from its corral and allow it free pasturage.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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