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
St. Louis, like Chicago, has made opera its harmonic pasturage.
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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