sandveldn.
/ˈsandvɛlt/ In southern Africa, (the name of) a region of light sandy soil.
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sand-flat1773
alluvial plain1803
sand-plain1818
sandveld1824
tundra1841
bench-land1845
salt flat1873
panfan1915
panplain1933
pediplain1935
soda plain1946
1824 W. J. Burchell Trav. Interior S. Afr. II. ix. 242 The plains on the other side [of the Langberg], are called by the name of Zandveld.
1873 Cape of Good Hope Blue Bk. App. p. JJ3 Several hundred trees have been planted along the main road to Cape Town..on ‘Zandveld’.
1919 S. Afr. Geogr. Jrnl. 3 73 The Free State farmer in the early spring-time treks to the ‘sand veld’ with his stock.
1937 Handbk. Farmers S. Afr. (S. Afr. Dept. Agric.) (new ed.) 704 In the sandveld the production of a grain crop is not easy—the soil is a light sand, not particularly fertile.
1939 ‘D. Rame’ Wine of Good Hope i. xiii. 158 They left the last of the wheat and came to a queer sand-veld.
1944 M. Oldevig Sunny Land vi. 51 The Kalahari, the waterless sandveld of Bechuanaland and South West Africa.
1953 D. Lessing Five iii. 121 This..was farming country,..a pocket of good, dark, rich soil in the wastes of the light sandveld.
1959 Cape Argus 15 Aug. 8/8 The blue afrikander (gladiolus recurvus..) is scenting the sandveld.
1964 Listener 6 Aug. 192/1 He plants the first rose on the burnt sandveld.
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