veldt

The high veldt rolled away, in shades of coffee and wheat.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 20, 2016

Also, square cars getting rounder, with Land Rover smoothing out its distinct boxy corners, ideal for the African veldt, to look like everything else.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 2015

“In my mind, there was somebody roaring across the African veldt in a Jeep with a DVD beside him, past lions,” Mr. Sanders said.

From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2014

So your partner occasionally sounds like a lion on the veldt.

From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2012

There was every appearance of the provincial and rural simplicity which goes to make up the daily life of those who live upon the veldt.

From The Siege of Mafeking (1900) by J. Angus Hamilton

In Oregon’s Willamette Valley, annual bouts of fall fire created veldts, typically 10 to 20 acres in size, of nearly pure camas lily, which have tasty roots that Kalapuya families gathered and stored for winter.

From National Geographic ● Dec. 17, 2020

First, in the deserts and veldts arose oral culture, the culture of the spoken word.

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson

In England there is an illimitable number of illimitable veldts.

From A Miscellany of Men by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

The khaki suits were designed to imitate the yellow veldts of South Africa; the gray-green garments of the German forces are designed to simulate the green fields of the north.

From Aeroplanes by James Slough Zerbe

These were scattered with patches of dense forest and jungle, but there were also great plains or veldts covered with game and animal life.

From The Blind Lion of the Congo by Elliott Whitney