greensward

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Houston’s, or a solitary elder’s transition to a cemetery’s greensward.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2022

As he passed the luminous greensward of Keble College’s cricket field, players in their whites could be seen throwing up their arms as a wicket was taken.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 17, 2018

The normally nocturnal animals cantered across the greensward and into the thick woods on the perimeter.

From Golf Digest • Jul. 31, 2018

The idea was to transform the largely derelict Hudson River waterfront from Battery Place to West 59th Street into a continuous greensward, with a bicycle path and piers for recreation.

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2015

They stood not far from the Citadel-gate, in the sixth circle, nigh to its southward wall, and about them was a garden and a greensward with trees, the only such place in the City.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien