steppe

Eating was almost equally irregular, for the steppe afforded but few opportunities of enjoying a good meal.

Have the fromager of the Cantal hills and the Caussenard of the Lozrien steppe their legends, folklore, songs?

A wolf took to flight; occasionally a hare leapt up out of the steppe grass, and locusts flew about noisily.

The background was a shadowy suggestion of steppe farm-land, unobtrusively implying vast distances of bluish-gray.