Definition of Greenswards

1. Noun. (plural of greensward) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Greenswards

1. greensward [n] - See also: greensward

Lexicographical Neighbors of Greenswards

greensick
greensickness
greensicknesses
greenside
greenskeeper
greenskeepers
greenskeeping
greenspace
greenspaces
greenstick fracture
greenstone
greenstones
greenstuff
greenstuffs
greensward
greenswards (current term)
greenth
greenths
greenward
greenware
greenwares
greenwash
greenwashed
greenwashes
greenwashing
greenwax
greenway
greenways
greenweed
greenweeds

Literary usage of Greenswards

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1904)
"... when you see men ploughing up heath ground, or sandy ground, or greenswards, then follow the plough, and you shall find a white worm as big as two ..."

2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1886)
"On the hill-sides are numerous tombs, planted on greenswards, surrounded by a horseshoe bank of earth and protected by groves of fir. ..."

3. Annual Report by Hawaiian Evangelical Association (1895)
"... living in scattered grass huts, and there were a few cocoa- nut trees standing here and there, but there were no flowers, no- greenswards, no water, ..."

4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1876)
"... places and greenswards, the suburban spots and rural spaces of our island, that its levels are disguised by a variety of belts and coverts ; its uplands ..."

5. The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest; the by Upton Sinclair (1915)
"Your diseases and your evil thoughts are crouching in the woods and on the greenswards. Everywhere a stink of misery is following you like that of rotting ..."

6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1842)
"Therefore is the mere sight of open spaces and greenswards a recreation to the townsman, and much moro to the town's wife and town-bred children ; and if ..."

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