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back green

British  

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

Sides rusty, back green, throat spotted with green and sometimes ruby, outer tail-feathers rusty at base, then black and a white tip, the feather more than .12 wide; middle tail-feathers green at base, end black.

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

It is like one I hae seen her hae out airing on the hay raip i' the back green.

From The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by Hogg, James

One side of the back green was overlooked by a tenement-house; the other was guarded by the poplars and a low stone wall; at the bottom was a dilapidated outhouse.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. by Various

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