All 5 Uses
veld
in
The Veldt, by Ray Bradbury
(Edited)
- Now, as George and Lydia Hadley stood in the center of the room, the walls began to purr and recede into crystalline distance, it seemed, and presently an African veldt appeared, in three dimensions, on all sides, in color reproduced to the final pebble and bit of straw.
p. 4.7 *veldt = open grassland (more commonly spelled veld)
- Can I compete with an African veldt?
p. 8.9veldt = open grassland
- But this — the long, hot African veldt-the awful death in the jaws of a lion.
p. 10.9
- Made it from a veldt into a forest and put Rima there instead of lions?
p. 16.1
- The lions on three sides of them, in the yellow veldt grass, padding through the dry straw, rumbling and roaring in their throats.
p. 27.2veldt = uncultivated grassland
Definitions:
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(1)
(veld) uncultivated grassland -- typically in the region of southern Africa
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)