nature strip

British  

noun

1. informal a grass strip in front of a house between a fence or footpath and a roadway

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Example Sentences

But on Tuesday morning, Baloukeserlis said he went out to the nature strip to see two more citizens had joined.

From The Guardian

Adelaide coach Bec Goddard, for example, was quoted as saying that “quite seriously, you could play us on the nature strip out on Punt Road and we’d be OK with it ... That’s how excited we are to be part of something so professional”.

From The Guardian

And, further, if it can be ascertained that the silent sufferings of the citizens of the world are greater, though less obvious, than the calamities produced by such violent convulsions as have happened in France, which, like hurricanes whirling over the face of nature, strip off all its blooming graces, it may be politically just to pursue such measures as were taken by that regenerating country, and at once root out those deleterious plants which poison the better half of human happiness.”

From Project Gutenberg

For he who has once seemed good, should he afterwards choose, for his own ends, to become bad, ought to change by slow degrees, and as opportunity serves; so that before his altered nature strip him of old favour, he may have gained for himself an equal share of new, and thus his influence suffer no diminution.

From Project Gutenberg