fair greenn.1
/ˈfɛː ɡriːn/, U.S. /ˈfɛ(ə)r ˌɡrin/ Golf. Now rare.
The stretch of shorter grass constituting the preferred playing surface between the tee and the putting green of a particular hole; = fairway n. 3.
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1744 Articles & Laws in Playing at Golf in Orig. Rules Golf (2009) 55 You are not to remove Stones, Bones, or any Break Club for the sake of playing your Ball, Except upon the fair Green.
1898 Golf Mag. Jan. 51 The fair green has been entirely neglected.
1915 A. H. Revell Pro & Con of Golf 7 This is not saying that it is easier to make a difficult putt than to use an iron or a wooden club on any part of the fair-green.
1927 J. Gordon Understandable Golf xiii. 67 The only differences between the driver and the brassie is about five degrees more elevation in the loft, which in itself is sufficient to elevate the ball from an average lie on the fair green.
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fair greenn.2
/ˈfɛː ɡriːn/, U.S. /ˈfɛ(ə)r ˌɡrin/, Irish English /ˈfeːr ɡriːn/ Irish English.
A piece of public or common grassy land situated in or near a town or village, esp. one where a fair is traditionally held.
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society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > fairground or amusement park > [noun] > site occupied
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1775 Gentleman's Monthly Mar. 155/1 About night-fall the rioters began to assemble at the Fair Green of Rathbeagh, within a mile of Ballyragget.
1863 Irish Jurist 15 119 The fair-green..is a very large piece of ground in the neighbourhood of the village of Cloneygowan, on which the inhabitants of that village..had a right to put their cows, sheep, and other animals to graze and pasture... There was also a patent for holding a fair on this piece of ground.
1903 P. W. Joyce Social Hist. Anc. Ireland II. xxix. 444 Special portions of the fair-green were set apart for another very important function—buying and selling.
1989 P. McCabe Carn (1993) v. 80 They both lay on the fairgreen looking up at the blue grass of the sky.
2000 Irish Times (Nexis) 25 Jan. 14 You could stop at the fair green to talk to a mountainy man about the price of cattle or the Civil War, and then move to the cafe to discuss the music and musings of Brian Eno.
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