Definitions

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  • noun Land that is a desert.

Etymologies

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desert +‎ land

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Examples

  • The Bhuttos are landowning grandees, in the desertland of Sindh, a backward part of the subcontinent, a kind of sandy Sicily, where politics consist of murky family feuds.

    The Double Life of Benazir Bhutto Buruma, Ian 1989

  • The influx of our countrymen from the desertland can not be construed as migration and we have the responsibility to rehabilitate them.

    Daily News & Analysis 2009

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