back green

noun

1. dialect.
   grass or a garden at the back of a house, esp a tenement

Example Sentences

Crown and back green, and tail rusty tipped with dusky, no notch in tail-feathers; in other respects like No. 433.

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To console them, he promised to bring back green parrots and golden bracelets, and embroidered satins from Japan.

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The window looked out on the back green, which was very much like the front, save that there was no flagged walk.

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