backland
back·land [ ˈbak-ˌland]
[ˈbak-ˌland]
Synonyms & Antonyms for dainty
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//Born in the arid backlands of Brazil’s north-east, Mr Gilberto arrived in Rio de Janeiro in 1950 as a singer in one of the then-fashionable vocal ensembles.
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The Economist, "João Gilberto, the man who sang “The Girl from Ipanema”, has died," 11 July 2019
//Tucked in the emerald backlands of Fayetteville, Georgia, inside a cavernous soundstage at Pinewood Studios, Mara Brock-Akil is in full field marshall mode.
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Jason Parham, WIRED, "How Oprah’s Network Finally Found Its Voice," 19 June 2018
//Patrícia Santos da Silva, 24, and her family live in the city of Santana do Ipanema, in the western backlands of Alagoas.
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Sandee Lamotte, CNN, "The forgotten mothers and babies of Zika," 1 Nov. 2017
//Some escaped and formed clandestine communities in the backlands of the rainforest, independent villages known as quilombos.
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Smithsonian, "How Brazilian Capoeira Evolved From a Martial Art to an International Dance Craze," 21 Sep. 2017
First Known Use of backland
1683, in the meaning defined above
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More Synonyms and Antonyms ofbackland
usually&"if">backlands plural
a rural region that forms the edge of the settled or developed part of a country
- they purposely vacationed in the backlands to get away from people