back green
noun
Central Scot dialect grass or a garden at the back of a house, esp a tenement
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How to use back green in a sentence
Crown and back green, and tail rusty tipped with dusky, no notch in tail-feathers; in other respects like No. 433.
Color Key to North American Birds | Frank M. ChapmanTo console them, he promised to bring back green parrots and golden bracelets, and embroidered satins from Japan.
Orientations | William Somerset MaughamThe 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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