prairillon

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noun

A little prairie.

OriginFrench prairillon →
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Meanings

nounprairillon (plural prairillons)

plural prairillons

  1. A little prairie.

    Straight before us rose the Rattlesnake Hills, […] while at their feet flowed the little river […] purling over its pebbly bed with graceful meanderings through clover prairillons and garden-spots full of wild currants, strawberries, gooseberries, and rattlesnakes; […]

    1862, Richard Francis Burton, The City of the Saints

Origin

  1. Frenchprairillon
  2. Englishprairillon

Borrowed from French prairillon, from prairie + -illon.

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APA

prairillon. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prairillon

MLA

“prairillon.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prairillon. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “prairillon,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prairillon.

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