Mauvaises Terres

French

Alternative forms

mauvaises terres

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mo.vɛz tɛʁ/, /mɔ.vɛz tɛʁ/

Noun

Mauvaises Terres f pl (plural only)

(geomorphology) badlands
Synonym: badlands
- 1870, Jules Verne, chapter 2, in Vingt Mille Lieues Sous Les Mers [Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas]‎, Paris: J. Hetzel et Compagnie, part 1:
  A l’époque où ces événements se produisirent, je revenais d’une exploration scientifique entreprise dans les mauvaises terres du Nebraska, aux États-Unis.
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Descendants

→ English: badlands, badland; Bad Lands (calque)
- → Esperanto: badlandoj
- → German: Badlands
- → French: badlands
- → Spanish: badlands

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