pine barren
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pine barren
An Americanism dating back to 1725–35
Example Sentences
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In the blackness before dawn, the Silver Meteor streaked through the South Carolina pine barren.
From Time Magazine Archive
The little grey reared and plunged and I landed—where, I don’t know; but the next that I remember, I was standing alone in the pine barren.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various
The lowest pine barren is higher than the loftiest mangrove wilderness.
From Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story by Terhune, Albert Payson
The eyrie had become "tiresome," the fragrance of the orange flowers "enervating;" as for pine barrens, she never wished to see a pine barren again.
From East Angels by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
"I hope not," he said,—as if liberty to buy and sell would be a dreadful blow to a man living in a shanty in a Florida pine barren!
From A Florida Sketch-Book by Torrey, Bradford
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