backland
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]backland (plural backlands)
- Land that lies behind or beyond some primary settlement or development.
- 2007 January 25, Larry Rohter, “Long-Lost Trove of Music Connects Brazil to Its Roots”, in New York Times[1]:
- He has developed a sophisticated, inventive way to use these modulations that were quite common in the singers we heard there in the backlands of the northeast.”