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  • n  an inhabitant of a plains region (especially the Great Plains of North America)

  • General Pershing turned, heard gruff phrases from the lips of a distraught plainsman, obviously the owner of the land on which he, General Pershing, hunted.
  • At 71, he has been made the hero of a sort of plainsman's festival of lettersa collection of his occasional essays (An Honest Preface; Houghton Mifflin; $3.
  • Chvez, an earthy llanero, or Venezuelan plainsman, can be a maddening and bullying ideologue.

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