greensward
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Houston’s, or a solitary elder’s transition to a cemetery’s greensward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2022
As he passed the luminous greensward of Keble College’s cricket field, players in their whites could be seen throwing up their arms as a wicket was taken.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 17, 2018
The normally nocturnal animals cantered across the greensward and into the thick woods on the perimeter.
From Golf Digest ● Jul. 31, 2018
Splendiferous mountain vistas of greensward and cliffs scaffold my dreams, drawn from memories of sheep pastures in Sicily and Greece, rich with textured sedges or tinted canyons, then bombastic skyscrapers, or Matisse’s Chapel.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2016
They stood not far from the Citadel-gate, in the sixth circle, nigh to its southward wall, and about them was a garden and a greensward with trees, the only such place in the City.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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