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polder

[ UK /pˈə‍ʊldɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈpoʊɫdɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. low-lying land that has been reclaimed and is protected by dikes (especially in the Netherlands)

How To Use polder In A Sentence

  • The land was highly regular polder, punctuated by a grid like system of canals and waterways across the drained areas.
  • This was the result of the gradual accumulation of silt in the river bed, brought down from overcultivated, erosion-prone slopes up-river, and of the excessive building of dikes in the lake areas to protect newly reclaimed polders.
  • We must get back of the furnace," Polder continued, indicating a narrow opening between brick walls through the unstopped chinks of which seethed the scorifying blaze. The Three Black Pennys A Novel
  • Just 39% of those living in the city are native Dutch, half born in Amsterdam, who were attracted by the idea of a quiet life in the midst of the green polder. Geert Wilders, the ultra-right firebrand, campaigns to be Holland's prime minister
  • The from home business irena, capaciousness, film, and the perspective restharrow are shipboard polder of niche stormbound by a lustily overreaching druthers of fossil and we palaeobotany ugly the pharmaceutical superstition on that woodgrain. Rational Review
  • The from home business irena, capaciousness, film, and the perspective restharrow are shipboard polder of niche stormbound by a lustily overreaching druthers of fossil and we palaeobotany ugly the pharmaceutical superstition on that woodgrain. Rational Review
  • In particular, the two concepts I dwell upon at length, the gedoog policy and the polder model, only exist as ideal types.
  • His stuff isn't precisely fantasy or science fiction, but sits in that polder between purely genre books and purely mainstream. MIND MELD: Non-Genre Books for Genre Readers
  • A realm's boundaries may be maintained defensively from the inside (making it a polder) or from the outside (making it a prison) or they may simply be there. Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams
  • Half an hour by train from Amsterdam, formidably modern Almere sits on the flat plain of the Flevoland polder – a tract of land enclosed by dykes bordering the waters of the Markermeer. Geert Wilders, the ultra-right firebrand, campaigns to be Holland's prime minister
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