See also: prairie (def. 2a) Prairies (def. 1)
- 1873  (1904)  A horse, a flint gun, some white cloth and beads, could purchase the hand and heart of the fairest squaw in Prairie land.
- 1887  . . . the Hudson's Bay Company . . . laid claim to the vast prairieland. . . .
2 n. Attributive use. the grassy plains of Western Canada collectively.
See also: prairie (def. 2b)
- 1913  (1965)  Softly the shadows of prairie-land wheat / Ripple and riot adown to her feet. . . .