new-mown
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of new-mown
late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75
Example Sentences
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When I smelled new-mown grass again for the first time, I cried.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2021
They are made of nine vegetable fibers, chemically treated and processed with an incenselike aromatic flavoring, and they put Schaflander way ahead in the new-mown hay category.
From Time Magazine Archive
We have waited long enough Out in the new-mown hay.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her first success, the title role in Israel Zangwill's Merely Mary Ann, so moved critics during the play's three-year run that they "always seemed to write about new-mown hay when they saw it."
From Time Magazine Archive
Even when the grass is new-mown, we are up to our eyes in it.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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