Mauvaises Terres

French

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mo.vɛz tɛʁ/, /mɔ.vɛz tɛʁ/

Noun

Mauvaises Terres f pl (plural only)

  1. (geomorphology) badlands
    Synonym: badlands
    • 1870, Jules Verne, chapter 2, in Vingt Mille Lieues Sous Les Mers [Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas]‎[1], Paris: J. Hetzel et Compagnie, part 1:
      A l'époque où ces événements se produisirent, je revenais d'une exploration scientifique entreprise dans les mauvaises terres du Nebraska, aux États-Unis.
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Descendants

  • → English: badlands, badland, Bad Lands (archaic) (calque)
    • → Esperanto: badlandoj
    • → German: Badlands
    • → French: badlands
    • → Spanish: badlands
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