a stretch of undulating plains, as in parts of the Prairie Provinces.
- 1841  (1931)  . . . the country behind [Fort Edmonton] consist of rolling prairie.
- 1880  After leaving the river the road passes for the most part through a beautiful tract of country, rolling prairie alternating with woodland.
- 1905  Northward from the Thompson for one hundred miles is another region of rolling bench lands . . . in a surprising manner maintaining a dryness far north into the Chilcotin rolling prairie country west of the Fraser. . . .
- 1936  (1960)  The rolling prairie, like the South African veldt, offered extensive cover to the defending force. . . .