prairillon

English

Noun

prairillon (plural prairillons)

  1. A little prairie.
    • 1862, Richard Francis Burton, The City of the Saints:
      Straight before us rose the Rattlesnake Hills, […] while at their feet flowed the little river […] purling over its pebbly bed with graceful meanderings through clover prairillons and garden-spots full of wild currants, strawberries, gooseberries, and rattlesnakes; […]
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