back green

British  

noun

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

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back green

Long after the ash had washed away and the charred landscapes grew back green, trauma remained.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 4, 2020

The 18-year-old Hammer chipped in for eagle from just off the back green on the 18th to beat Alvaro Ortiz of Mexico, 2 up.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 15, 2018

The mountains rolled back, green on the slopes, blue at the crests, and below him, like a brown robe, lay the wavering plain across which they had come.

From The Last of the Chiefs A Story of the Great Sioux War by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

Great processions were also formed to visit the woods and bring back green boughs wherewith to decorate the houses on St. John's Eve.

From Holidays & Happy-Days by Hamish Hendry

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

From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Frank M. Chapman

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