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- noun The extensive
plains ofSouth America south of the Amazon.
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Examples
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There were places called pampas, for instance, that sounded well.
Dream Days 1898
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There were places called pampas, for instance, that sounded well.
Dream Days Kenneth Grahame 1895
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A common phenomenon on the pampas is a sudden migration of the horses of a district to some distant place.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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sionnach commented on the word pampas
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.
August 14, 2008