plainsman
noun
an inhabitant of the plains.
plainsmen
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pluralof plainsman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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For Murnane, for the plainsmen, this obviously apparent richness of the actual is a kind of poverty.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 29, 2017
Murnane’s mysterious plainsmen pursue the “lifelong task of shaping from uneventful days in a flat landscape the substance of myth.”
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 29, 2017
As a gesture of good will, one of these weather units had 90 saddles flown in from the U.S. and parachuted on to the desert for Mongolian plainsmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Scouring the prairie, Wilkinson recruited squads of lean, tall, whippet-fast plainsmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many old plainsmen would think that estimate too low; yet ten per cent would give us five thousand lives as one year's toll paid for the peopling of the Oregon Country.
From Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail by F. N. (Frederick N.) Wilson
