Badlands
: badlands
Étymologie
[modifier le wikicode]- (Années 1880) Contraction de Bad Lands.
Nom propre
[modifier le wikicode]| Pluriel |
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| Badlands \ˈbæd.lændz\ |
Badlands \ˈbæd.lændz\
- Variante de Bad Lands.
The route we are following soon takes us through what are called the Badlands, a most singular region, where subterranean and surface fires are constantly burning, where trees have become petrified, and where the naturel blue clay has been converted into terra cotta.
— (Maturin Murray Ballou, The new Eldorado : a summer journey to Alaska, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1889, page 10)