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Painted Desert

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Paint·ed Desert  (pntd)
A plateau region of north-central Arizona east of the Colorado and Little Colorado Rivers. Irregularly eroded layers of red and yellow sediment and clay have left striking bands of color.
Painted Desert
n
(Placename) a section of the high plateau country of N central Arizona, along the N side of the Little Colorado River Valley: brilliant-coloured rocks; occupied largely by Navaho and Hopi Indians. Area: about 20 000 sq. km (7500 sq. miles)
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Noun1.Painted DesertPainted Desert - a desert on a high plateau in northeastern Arizona
Arizona, Grand Canyon State, AZ - a state in southwestern United States; site of the Grand Canyon


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One instant he was astride a broncho and flying through the fairy-colored Painted Desert country; the next instant he was gazing down through shimmering heat into the whited sepulchre of Death Valley, or pulling an oar on a freezing ocean where great ice islands towered and glistened in the sun.
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