DCHP-1 Online
prairion < Cdn F prairillon, dim. of prairie Hist. 
n. a small tract of grassland; a small meadow.
- 1811 (1897) The country about the house is in general wooded with small prairions at intervals of a mile or more.
- 1833 (1963) Our course lay through rich & level prairies and prairions or smaller plains, separated from each other by belts of wood. . . .
- 1953 A little stream wound down the valley center, widening here and there into ponds and small green prairillons. In one of these meadows, about two-thirds of a mile away, a herd of two thousand buffaloes were pasturing on the aromatic bunch grass.
- 1811 (1897) The country about the house is in general wooded with small prairions at intervals of a mile or more.