"downland" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1789, Ann Ward Radcliffe, chapter 4, in The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne, London: T. Hookham, page 93:",
          "text": "Hail! every distant hill, and downland plain!\nYour dew-hid beauties Fancy oft unveils;",
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          "ref": "1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:",
          "text": "[…] I walked on to Canterbury early in the morning. It was now winter again; and the fresh, cold windy day, and the sweeping downland, brightened up my hopes a little.",
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          "ref": "1898, Thomas Hardy, “My Cicely”, in Wessex Poems and Other Verses, New York: Harper, page 126:",
          "text": "I traversed the downland\nWhereon the bleak hill-graves of Chieftains\nBulge barren of tree;",
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          "ref": "1946 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “Isle of Wight Central Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 244:",
          "text": "Shortly after leaving Godshill, a lengthy climb begins through rolling downland country at 1 in 75, easing to 1 in 103.",
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          "ref": "1953 February, H. A. Vallance, “To Brighton through the Shoreham Gap”, in Railway Magazine, page 82:",
          "text": "The large cement works nearby are served by sidings, and strike a sudden jarring industrial note in the midst of the rural downland scene.",
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          "ref": "1958, Muriel Spark, chapter 6, in Robinson, New York: New Directions, published 2003, page 66:",
          "text": "I was surprised to see that the plane had been wrecked, not on one of the hefty cliff faces of our mountain, but on a gentle green hillside, merging into downland.",
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          "ref": "2010, Howard Jacobson, chapter 12, in The Finkler Question, New York: Bloomsbury, page 278:",
          "text": "He drank another whisky then left the pub and climbed slowly up the downlands, bent as the trees and shrubs were bent.",
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        "An area of rolling hills (downs), often grassy pasture over chalk or limestone."
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        "(UK) An area of rolling hills (downs), often grassy pasture over chalk or limestone."
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          "type": "quote"
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