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  • noun Plural form of downland.

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Examples

  • Her 2007 album White Chalk found her haunting British downlands, while her new one explores the idea of England.

    This week's new live music 2011

  • You can see some of that complexity recouped in Ravilious's 1939 painting The Vale of the White Horse, in which the chalk downlands of southern England have been simplified into rolls of colour, atop which sits the abstraction of the ancient cut-out horse.

    Watercolour at Tate Britain - review 2011

  • In the Ruin we have to be careful in valleys and downlands.

    Rot & Ruin Jonathan Maberry 2010

  • He tossed his head with pleasure and trotted jauntily up the rutted access to the downlands which spread for fifty miles east to west across central southern England - from the Chilterns to Salisbury Plain.

    They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010

  • Crossing the Ridgeway, the country opens up to reveal a spectacular view across rolling downlands, to the Vale of the White Horse.

    Enjoy the Ride 2010

  • The way home lay across country, through deep little lanes where the late foxgloves sat seriously, like sad hounds; over open downlands, rough with gorse and ling, and through pocketed hollows of bracken and trees.

    The Trespasser 2003

  • She drove to the Smugglers Inn at Osmington Mill, to the east of Dorchester, which had been built in the thir­teenth century, beside a stream, in a cleft between two swooping downlands that rose to meet the spectacular Jurassic cliffs of the Dorset coast.

    Disordered Minds Walters, Minette 2003

  • He tossed his head with pleasure and trotted jauntily up the rutted access to the downlands which spread for fifty miles east to west across central southern England - from the Chilterns to Salisbury Plain.

    To The Hilt Francis, Dick, 1920- 1996

  • In winter the wild-fowling in the marshes was varied and exciting, but there 117 was hunting to be had as well, deer and boar, in the rolling country to the eastward, or among the wooded slopes that rose towards the downlands in the south.

    The Wicked Day Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1983

  • And though both the Israeli and the Egyptian had official engagements in this general area at midday, one on Salisbury Plain and the other at Portland, these woodlands struck him as being even less suitable than the open downlands.

    The Alamut Ambush Price, Anthony 1971

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