painted desert

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   a desert on a high plateau in northeastern Arizona

   Broaderdesert

   Part ofArizona

Questions about painted desert

What does painted desert mean?

painted desert means "a desert on a high plateau in northeastern Arizona".

Is painted desert a common word?

painted desert is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.