grassplot
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of grassplot
Example Sentences
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From the parlour window might be admired a prospect of barn, dunghill, dovecote, horsepond, piggery, which offered to the nose in summer a bouquet of varied sweets; while the usual yard or two of road swept round the usual dark circular grassplot with a mouldy rhododendron in the centre of it.
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Keep on reading and play as much on the music and the grassplot as you can.
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In the distance he sees her; she is standing motionless in the centre of a grassplot, while behind her Chesney is busily engaged tying back her yellow hair with a broad piece of black ribbon she has evidently given him for the purpose.
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From time to time his glance would be directed to the large grassplot where Maia was playing croquet with Count Victor von Eckardstein.
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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.
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