foras land
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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Noun[edit]
foras land (countable and uncountable, plural foras lands)
- (India, historical) Land reclaimed from the sea by constructing causeways or embankments.
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References[edit]
- Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “foras land”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].