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sweet grass
noun
- any of several fragrant plants, as manna grass or the sweet flag.
sweet grass
noun
- an aromatic grass ( Hierochloe odorata ), traditionally used in Native American rituals
- See flote grass
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sweet grass1
First recorded in 1570–80
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Example Sentences
The last time I hugged her, she put sweet grass in my hand and told me to be good.
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He was like a granite rock, which the sweet grass has overgrown, and from whose crevices peep lovely wild flowers.
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Sheep prefer hills of moderate elevation, where they find a short sweet grass, of which they are very fond.
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Pretty well, but nothing like the way Florences and Francess little sweet-grass baskets went.
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She stepped ashore, and stood ankle-deep in the sweet grass, and looked about her for a while, and saw no shape of man astir.
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He was tossing small handfuls of dried sweet-grass upon the embers, and droning some sort of medicine-song.
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