a city in S Kentucky.
a city in NW Ohio.
a small open area near the S tip of Manhattan in New York City, at the foot of Broadway.
First recorded in 1640–50
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Fillongley Provincial Park was an early-20th-century private estate, whose former bowling green is now a wildflower meadow ringed by imported deciduous trees.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2023
Previously, he'd attempted to make his garden resemble a bowling green, he says, before recognising that this attitude created something of a "biodiversity desert".
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2022
The pitch that night was soaked and rutted but Modric passed the ball as though he was playing on a bowling green.
From The Guardian • Jul. 10, 2018
The bowling green is no longer there, but Bowling Green Street is.
From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2016
It was a trying time, but she safely passed through it, and quickly found herself at the little latchet gate below the bowling green.
From Heiress of Haddon by Doubleday, William E.
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