fenland

[ fen-land, -luhnd ]

noun

1. a low area of marshy ground.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fenland¹

fen ¹ + land

Example Sentences

They had watched the triumphant army pass, setting the dull fenland ablaze with color as it moved.

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It only occurs in fenland, chiefly Norfolk and Cambridgeshire.

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The Crane was in a spit of open woodland, with before him and on either side deep fenland with paths known only to its dwellers.

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Starting from the Cam at Clayhithe it runs along the whole western limit of the fenland.

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They are respectively (p. 297) four and twelve furlongs from the stream, and mark successive boundaries of the fenland waters.

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