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plantation
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[ noun ] an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas)
Used in print (Bell I. Wiley, "Home Letters of Johnny Reb and Billy...)Charles_Thiot , a splendid Georgia soldier , differed from most_of his comrades in the ranks in that he was the owner of a large plantation , well-educated , and nearly fifty years of_age . (Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)The planter aristocracy has appeared in literature at_least since John_Pendleton_Kennedy published Swallow-Barn in 1832 and in his genial portrait of Frank_Meriwether presiding over his plantation dominion initiated the most persistent tradition of Southern literature . The myth of the Southern plantation has had only a tangential relation with actuality , as Francis_Pendleton_Gaines showed forty years ago , and I suspect it has had a far narrower acceptance as something real than has generally been supposed . Faulkner 's low-class characters had but few counterparts in earlier Southern novels dealing with plantation life . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America)
Examples "the practice of sending convicted criminals to serve on the Plantations was common in the 17th century" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (geography) garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth
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