grassplot
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of grassplot
Example Sentences
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The court was partly paved with stone, but was roofless, and on a grassplot a fountain played under young trees in the sunlight.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Historians," she added, "believe that the spring of fresh water whose discovery by Blackstone led Winthrop's party to prefer Boston to Charlestown, was probably not far from the centre of the grassplot in the square.
From Brenda, Her School and Her Club by Helen Leah Reed
Morton accompanied him to a sequestered grassplot, where their colleagues awaited them.
From Old Mortality, Volume 2. by Sir Walter Scott
Where did it come from—that quaint little house with the fanlight over the door and the flower-starred grassplot in front?
From Greenwich Village by Allan G. (Allan Gilbert) Cram
Planted firmly on the grassplot outside the cellar door, with a cat-hole just large enough for Polly cut in the wire, it was so secure as to appease even her maternal fears.
From Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road by Katharine Lee Bates
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