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stubble field
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synonyms: rowen, earsh, arrish, arish ???
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Definition:a field which has just been harvested, leaving just the crop stubble.---Stubble burning is intentionally setting fire to the straw stubble that remains after wheat and other grains have been harvested. The practice was widespread until the 1990s, when governments increasingly restricted its use.text from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stubble_burning&oldid=879666596, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
painting: by Isaac Levitan (1895), https://www.wikiart.org/en/isaac-levitan/a-dull-day-stubble
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Larks trilled unseen above the velvety green fields and the ice-covered stubble-land;
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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His thinsocked ankles were tickled by the stubble of Clongowes field.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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He was in a field. Before him was one of those low hills covered with close-cut stubble, which, after the harvest, resemble shaved heads.
Victor Hugo. Les Misérables
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There was only that harsh sigh of her respiration, like a light breeze through hay-stubble.
Stephen King. The Stand (1990)
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