polder

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low-lying land that has been reclaimed and is protected by dikes (especially in the Netherlands)

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One of the polders on this island, the Wulpenpolder, had been granted tax exemptions by the States-General for the period between 1637, the year it was reclaimed, and 1701.
The opponents did not disagree with supporting the adjoining polders as such, but they did not want to enter into an agreement with long-term consequences that could not be foreseen.
Sharing the cost of dike maintenance in the South-Western Netherlands: Comparing 'calamitous polders' in three 'states', 1715-1795
If the ponderous juggernaut of Venice is anything to go by, Biennales have a sacred duty to be irritatingly diffuse, both physically and intellectually, but Rotterdam was decidedly more focused (to the point of only lasting a month) and had a sense of coherence, even though the Dutch obsession with polders is perhaps not shared outside the Low Countries.
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Then there's the problem of scale: All the objects incorporated into the Polders are exactly half their normal size.
Tatiana Trouve: Frac PACA
Because of this, farmers have placed a special emphasis on protecting birds and nesting sites across the polders, where farm machinery and monoculture planting often destroys them.
Reinventing Waterland
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