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burned country 
a tract of forest or prairie swept by fire.
See also: burnt land(s) (def. 1)
- c1665 (1885) It's such a country that the french calls it ye burned country 20 miles about, and in many places the same is to be seene where there weare forests.
- 1930 About half way there, we reached the burnt country, over which the prairie fire had swept. . . .
- 1963 After the dreary burnt country, the hay flats and bunch-grass hillsides of the valley were a . . . relief. . . .
- c1665 (1885) It's such a country that the french calls it ye burned country 20 miles about, and in many places the same is to be seene where there weare forests.