sweet grass

noun

any of several fragrant plants, as manna grass or the sweet flag.

Words nearby sweet grass

sweet corn, sweet dreams, sweet fern, sweet flag, sweet gale, sweet grass, sweet gum, sweet marjoram, sweet marten, sweet mock orange, sweet nothings

Origin of sweet grass

First recorded in 1570–80

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Examples from the Web for sweet grass

She put the final cluster into the bunch in hand, and began to wind a withe of sweet-grass around the stems.
April Hopes|William Dean Howells
The fernery was flanked by two other handwoven baskets of sweet-grass.
Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks|Lillian Elizabeth Roy
Was she not going off with the secret intention of earning money enough to buy that sweet-grass basket before Flora could?
Young Lucretia and Other Stories|Mary E. Wilkins
His forehead was bound with a wreath of sweet-grass, and he carried a bunch of fragrant flowers in his hand.
Good Stories For Great Holidays|Frances Jenkins Olcott

They make a yearly pilgrimage to the seashore for the sweet-grass, which grows in the salt meadows at the mouths of a few rivers.
A Northern Countryside|Rosalind Richards

British Dictionary definitions for sweet grass

sweet grass

noun

an aromatic grass (Hierochloe odorata), traditionally used in Native American rituals

See flote grass

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sweet grass

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