Usage Note
Prairie is the ordinary French word for a meadow or grassy pasture — a working agricultural or natural landscape. The English 'prairie' is borrowed from this French word, brought to North America by French settlers describing the great grasslands. The phrase la Prairie still refers to those North American plains in historical and geographical contexts.
Examples
"Les vaches paissent dans la prairie."
Natural Translation
The cows graze in the meadow.
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