| 单词 | greensward plain |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreensward plain C1. General attributive, as greensward common, greensward ground, greensward plain, greensward show, etc. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > path or place for walking > [adjective] > provided with garden walks > specific surface greensward1633 crazy1923 1633 H. Hawkins Partheneia Sacra ix. 98 Looke into a garden, in that season of the Spring; and whatsoever your eyes can behold truly delicious there, in the greennes of the plots and arbours, both open and close, and in the green-sword allies and bancks. 1691 J. Dryden King Arthur ii. i. 11 Trembling Bogs, that bear a Green-Sword show. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 276 We spread the Tables, on the greensword Ground. 1778 T. Jefferson Memorandum Bks. 10 Oct. (1997) I. 471 P[ai]d...for 35 pints greensword seed 43/9. 1886 W. E. Channing John Brown 136 Oh, ye hills, And groves, and charming greensward meads Of rural Torrington. 1920 W. A. Anderson South of Suez 117 I rode through the villages that lie from the capital out to eastward where a clear greensward plain, a hollow in the palm of the hills, had been prepared to stage the triumph. 1977 J. Pournelle Mercenary in Future Hist. (1980) 153 Their house was on one of the large greensward commons running up the hill from Allansport. 1990 P. L. Mariani Salvage Operations 75 The invincible Yankees..were beating the worthy (but vincible) Red Sox on the greensward enclosure. < as lemmas |
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