sward

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And the pictures are ravishing: a Massachusetts lighthouse on a grassy sward under an azure sky; a winding two-lane road through New Zealand’s Southern Alps that disappears into the snow-dusted hulk of Mt.

From Washington Post • Jan. 10, 2018

A replica was built in 1989 by the junta, which handed the vast sward of green that surrounds the palace to the military for use as a headquarters.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2016

The teams line up in the tunnel looking very tense indeed, then make their way out on to the Twickenham sward ahead of the pre-match formalities.

From The Guardian • Oct. 10, 2015

Picture his bemusement when, out of the blue, he is invited to the du Pont estate, and gently deposited by private chopper on the sward.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 10, 2014

To the left stood a great mound, covered with a sward of grass as green as Springtime in the Elder Days.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien