veldt

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In his public appearances, Berger often shows a photograph of the golden high veldt and tells audiences, “When I look at that, I see Swiss cheese.”

From The New Yorker • Jun. 20, 2016

Also, square cars getting rounder, with Land Rover smoothing out its distinct boxy corners, ideal for the African veldt, to look like everything else.

From Washington Post • Jan. 30, 2015

I'd see Mom fly past, then Faith, Doreen, Steven, Barbara, your mom, John, out of the window, over the barbed-wire fence, over the next fence into the veldt and under a thorn tree.

From The Guardian • Mar. 22, 2013

So your partner occasionally sounds like a lion on the veldt.

From Slate • Dec. 18, 2012

It was three miles across the veldt, a mere black shadow upon the skyline, distinguished by its proximity to a local landmark, the "Jackal Tree," where the Boers had intrenched their Creusot gun.

From The Siege of Mafeking (1900) by Hamilton, J. Angus