Veld
noun
a grassland especially of southern Africa usually with scattered shrubs or trees
Source: Merriam-Webster
“Travel posters plastered the smoke-dark walls, like so many picture windows overlooking Swiss lakes and Japanese mountains and African velds, and thick, dusty bottle-candles, that seemed for centuries to have wept their colored waxes red over blue over green in a fine, three-dimensional lace, cast a circle of light round each table where the faces floated, flushed and flamelike themselves.”
From: The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath (Chapter 7)
The definition of this word makes it easy for me to understand the scenario that is being described, which is the imagery present in a poster on the wall of the restaurant where Constantin took Esther to.
