Moorland
['mɔːlənd;'mʊə-] or ['mɔlənd]
Definition
(n.) Land consisting of a moor or moors.
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Examples
- The wind sighed low in the firs: all was moorland loneliness and midnight hush. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Far as the shore was, the sound of the surf swept over the intervening moorland, and beat drearily in my ears when I entered the churchyard. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- One led to Mr. Ablewhite's house, and the other to a moorland village some two or three miles off. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- They wandered onward till they reached the nether margin of the heath, where it became marshy and merged in moorland. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Archer acquiesced, and she turned the ponies down Narragansett Avenue, crossed Spring Street and drove out toward the rocky moorland beyond. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The last ray of the sun had already faded from the cloud-edges, and the October night was casting over the moorlands the shadow of her approach. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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