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
When he was gone, I went across the street to see Butterwick about top-dressing my grassplot.
From Elbow-Room A Novel Without a Plot by Charles Heber Clark
Embedded at the corner of a grassplot across the street was a whitewashed stone, the size of a small watermelon and serving no purpose whatever save the questionable one of decoration.
From Penrod by Booth Tarkington
"I've brung you home, and you're on your own grassplot, same's you were."
From Five Little Peppers and their Friends by Margaret Sidney
Another day Glumdalclitch left me on a smooth grassplot to divert myself, while she walked at some distance with her governess.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
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