veldt
Americannoun
plural
veldtsExample Sentences
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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
Looking closely I noticed the veldt was dotted with thousands of tiny yellow and purple buds, giving me a taste of what might be — weather willing.
From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2014
The desired image, projected against a backdrop of veldt and dust, is always one of determined respectability.
From The Guardian • Mar. 22, 2013
The mists of night were still rising from the veldt about the Boer lines, and as we looked through our field-glasses, figures here and there, were busily engaged in gathering brushwood for the matutinal fire.
From The Siege of Mafeking (1900) by Hamilton, J. Angus
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