Meaning of transhumance | Babel Free

Definitions

The seasonal movement of people, with their cattle or other grazing animals, to new pastures which may be quite distant.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“There are rites of spring in the mountains, and this week I followed the transhumance, the annual movement of cattle, from their lower valley winter quarters up to the higher pastures.”

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