Definitions
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- noun
Land that is adesert .
Etymologies
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desert + land
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Examples
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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
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The influx of our countrymen from the desertland can not be construed as migration and we have the responsibility to rehabilitate them.
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