How the French (USA) language influenced English with the word 'prairie'

'Prairie' is a word borrowed from French (USA) 'praerie'. The word entered the English language some time around 1682.

prairie [noun] [circa 1682]

• land in or predominantly in grass
• a tract of grassland
• as
• a large area of level or rolling land in the Mississippi River valley that in its natural uncultivated state usually ha...
• one of the dry treeless plateaus east of the Rocky Mountains that merge on their east side with the proper and are cha...

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Etymology: French, from Old French 'praierie' from Vulgar Latin '*prataria' from Latin 'pratum' meadow

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