1854 J. L. Motley Let. in (1855) 7 44 We went up the river four days before coming to any houses, which with their rice clearings materially altered the landscape.
1895 J. Conrad vi. 116 Finding shelter under that man's roof in the modest rice-clearing.
1992 E. Tonkin (1995) i. 21 That journey through the forests and rice clearings.