back green

British  

noun

1. dialect grass or a garden at the back of a house, esp a tenement

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Example Sentences

Long after the ash had washed away and the charred landscapes grew back green, trauma remained.

From The Guardian • Oct. 4, 2020

The 18-year-old Hammer chipped in for eagle from just off the back green on the 18th to beat Alvaro Ortiz of Mexico, 2 up.

From Washington Times • Aug. 15, 2018

This animal is of the dimensions of a child’s little finger; the back green, the belly speckled white and red.

From Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa by Adams, H.C.

The mountains rolled back, green on the slopes, blue at the crests, and below him, like a brown robe, lay the wavering plain across which they had come.

From The Last of the Chiefs A Story of the Great Sioux War by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)

Sides rusty, back green, throat spotted with green and sometimes ruby, outer tail-feathers rusty at base, then black and a white tip, the feather more than .12 wide; middle tail-feathers green at base, end black.

From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Chapman, Frank M.