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Definition of Painted desert
1. Noun. A desert on a high plateau in northeastern Arizona.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Painted Desert
Literary usage of Painted desert
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1904)
"The term "Indians of the painted desert Region" is more general than the term "
Pueblo," for it includes the Navajos who dwelt in the mountains, ..."
2. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1904)
"The term "Indians of the painted desert Region" is more general than the term "
Pueblo," for it includes the Navajos, who dwelt in the mountains, ..."
3. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1921)
"—Alexander Wilson BOTANIZING IN THE painted desert By WILLARD N. GLUTE. A RIZONA,
the sixth largest State in the Union, consists '**• almost entirely of ..."
4. The Desert: Further Studies in Natural Appearances by John Charles Van Dyke (1907)
"And yet not twenty miles from the green valley you may enter upon the most barren
plain imaginable—a place like the painted desert, perhaps, where in spots ..."
5. Our American Wonderlands by George Wharton James (1915)
"CHAPTER XI OVER THE painted desert TO THE HOPI SNAKE DANCE THIS is a ... Think of
calling this wild land of color La Desierto Pintado — the painted desert ..."
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