grassplot

[ gras-plot, grahs- ]

noun

1. a plot of ground covered with or reserved for grass.

Word History and Origins

Origin of grassplot¹

First recorded in 1600–10; grass + plot

Example Sentences

The court was partly paved with stone, but was roofless, and on a grassplot a fountain played under young trees in the sunlight.

From Literature

From the parlour window might be admired a prospect of barn, dunghill, dovecote, horsepond, piggery, which offered to the nose in summer a bouquet of varied sweets; while the usual yard or two of road swept round the usual dark circular grassplot with a mouldy rhododendron in the centre of it.

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Keep on reading and play as much on the music and the grassplot as you can.

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In the distance he sees her; she is standing motionless in the centre of a grassplot, while behind her Chesney is busily engaged tying back her yellow hair with a broad piece of black ribbon she has evidently given him for the purpose.

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From time to time his glance would be directed to the large grassplot where Maia was playing croquet with Count Victor von Eckardstein.

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