backveld

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"And how was she to know that one may live in London, or New York, a village in Yorkshire, or a dorp in the backveld […] but one behaves inevitably, inexorably, exactly like everyone else."
"If it hadn't been for Susan he might have ended his life in some small, forgotten backveld village, quietly content to teach a bit of history and geography to one generation of school children after the other […]."

From back + veld.

backvelds (plural)

backvelder

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