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Pampas

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Treeless plains, some 2,000 miles long and from 300 to 500 broad, in South America. They cover an area of 750,000 square miles. It is an Indian word meaning flats or plains.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Palm Oil
Palm Sunday
Palm Tree
Palmer
Palmerin of England
Palmy Days
Palsy
Paludamentum
Pam
Pamela
Pampas
Pamper
Pamphlet
Pamphyle
Pan
Panacea
Panama
Pancake
Pancaste
Pancras (St.)
Pandarus

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