tapis vert

[ ta-pee ver ]

noun

, French.

, plural ta·pis verts [t, a, -pee , ver].

1. an unbroken expanse of lawn used as a major element of a landscape design.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tapis vert¹

Literally, “green carpet”

Example Sentences

And on the tapis vert, a huge red-and-black cube is tucked behind the hedges, inviting visitors inside its curving, PVC-clad interior, which has the feel of a space-age habitat.

From Architectural Digest

For a project at a London townhouse, yews clipped into massive rectangles are lined up colonnade-style, framing an impeccable tapis vert that is reached by ascending a broad flight of limestone steps.

From Architectural Digest

Louis XIV of France included large squares of tapis vert, or green carpet, in his Versailles gardens.

From BBC

And the Petit Trianon was in itself an improvement upon, or rather a protest against, the sumptuous splendour of the Orangerie, the basins of Latona and of Neptune, and the superb tapis vert, with its bordering groves of clipt trees and shrubs.

From Project Gutenberg

Possibly he is dreaming, and if so, in all likelihood it is of a grand gas-lighted salon, with tables of tapis vert, carrying packs of playing cards, dice cubes, and ivory counters.

From Project Gutenberg