Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The extensive plains of South America south of the Amazon.
Etymologies
- From (plural of) American Spanish pampa, from Quechua pampa ("land, ground"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“There were places called pampas, for instance, that sounded well.”
“On moist or marshy grounds there are also several lilies, yellow, white, and red, two or three flags, and various other small flowers; but altogether the flora of the pampas is the poorest in species of any fertile district on the globe.”
“A common phenomenon on the pampas is a sudden migration of the horses of a district to some distant place.”
“The first colonists who made their homes in this vast vacant space, called the pampas, came from a land where the people are accustomed to sit in the shade of trees, where corn and wine and oil are supposed to be necessaries, and where there is salad in the garden.”
“Remember The frothy fronds of the pampas are a favourite of the suburbs, but the soft silvery tassles of the misacanthus are equally”
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“Spread of Western Juniper Seeds Studied help of humans; but in between nature's self-watering process, the garden may need The frothy fronds of the pampas are a favourite of the suburbs, but the soft silvery tassles of the misacanthus are equally dramatic - and they won't cut your fingers ...”
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“Autumn Color: Designed by the Creator Himself book of Genesis Chapter one; and within his living and breathing masterpiece, he added colorful skies The frothy fronds of the pampas are a favourite of the suburbs, but the soft silvery tassles of the misacanthus are equally dramatic - and they won't cut your fingers ...”
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“Smart gardeners stay inside, curl up with the seed catalogues and conjure a stunning display for next year The frothy fronds of the pampas are a favourite of the suburbs, but the soft silvery tassles of the misacanthus are equally dramatic - and they won't cut your fingers ...”
“Creator of the Universe, when contrasted with the insignificance of the powers and achievements of a vivified atom of earth modeled into human form, are probably under no circumstances more strikingly exhibited and felt than when one becomes bewildered and lost in the almost limitless amplitude of our great North American "pampas," where not a single foot-mark or other trace of man's presence or action can be discovered, and where the solitary wanderer is startled at the sound even of his own voice.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pampas’.
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Grasses
Grasses, and words about grasses.
Prairie grasses names are found in this list.
Names of medical marijuana strains can be found elsewhere.cheatgrass, downy brome, chess, brome, bronco-grass, graminoid, grassland, phytolith, steppe, tallgrass prairie, sword grass, panicle and 323 more...
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Pterodactyl's Game of Postal Abbrevia...
Here's a fun little word game that might appeal to my fellow Wordies. The object of this game is to create the longest possible word, using only the official two-letter abbreviations of U.S. states...
deny, lame, mope, demand, camp, cask, hind, decamp, canvas, scalar, mental, pronks and 75 more...
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Color Words for Shoes
Vendors can get oddly creative.
amaranth, brindle, iguana, slate black, madder brown, bison, pinecone, seal brown, forest night, burnt orange, monument, beet red and 399 more...
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#1
Words I Like
abide, sashay, microbial, scented, nature, amorphous, unknown, imagine, photogenic, soft, silken, history and 188 more...
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NTDW1
template, modal, sublingual, tandem, polycentric, septuagenarian, token, irrevocable, denotive, augural, aberrant, phlebotomy and 1188 more...
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kmalladi's favorites
edification, penchant, ablution, extricate, frank, triumvirate, trifecta, egregious, hoi polloi, articulate, antediluvian, brusque and 291 more...
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Landscape
riparian, littoral, talus, fen, ambit, savanna, remnant prairie, shortgrass prairie, tallgrass prairie, marsh, swamp, marshy and 199 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, P
pellucid, pertain, pampas, prate, pinecone, philistine, pantocrator, papaverine, postmeridian, potlatch, pharology, pinniped and 622 more...
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wordrainbow
A big list of color names for use on wordrainbow.com
emerald, cherry, coffee, cream, almond, gold, kiwi, green, grass green, aquamarine, beet red, sepia and 714 more...
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Geographical Fun
the Earth's geographic beauty & diversity.
arroyo, atoll, badlands, barrier island, berm, box canyon, cataract, chasm, escarpment, estuary, grotto, gulch and 54 more...
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To The Lighthouse
Words gathered while reading To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf.
ermine, prolegomenon, blandishment, hindustanee, greatcoat, absorbedly, cyclamen, jacmanna, pampas, covey, colloquy, cumber and 59 more...
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The Motorcycle Diaries
Che Guevara
vicissitude, pampas, precursor, solemnity, trajectory, Quixotic, roguish, solder, efficacy, rapport, acrid, circumscribe and 88 more...
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armchair traveler
interesting place names
ipswitch, bora bora, inverness, burkina faso, ouagadougou, gobi, reykjavik, pampas, paraguay, nicaragua, kuala lumpur, ulan bator and 70 more...
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BUENOS AIRES
porteño, buonarense, factura, medialuna, gobbsas, tango, sandwicheria, farmacity, obelisk, empanada, pampas, filter and 18 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for pampas.

sionnach as in MAINLY ON THE PAMPAS , a phrase which I have shamelessly appropriated for my new blogname. Same blog, shameless name-change; apparently I couldn't resist. Aug 14, 2008