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- noun Plural form of
veld .
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Examples
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"Travel posters plastered the smoke-dark walls, like so many picture windows overlooking Swiss lakes and Japanese mountains and African velds, and thick, dusty bottle-candles, that seemed for centuries to have wept their colored waxes red over blue over green in a fine, three-dimensional lace, cast a circle of light round each table where the faces floated, flushed and flamelike themselves." page.
Teaser Tuesday! Sam 2009
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[Sidenote: Effect of winds on climate.] [Sidenote: The velds.]
History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government Great Britain. War Office 1876
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(six); young Hugo; "Gelijk een bloem des velds" ( "As for man his days are as grass; as a flower of the field so he flourisheth") [11]
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