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a tiny green empire you defend with a machine that smells like summer and gasoline
means a stretch of mown, cultivated grass kept short around a house, garden, or park.
from From Middle English 'launde,' meaning an open glade or woodland clearing, borrowed from Old French 'lande' (heath, moor) — itself likely of Celtic or Germanic root, a cousin of the word that gives us 'land.' The 'd' softened into 'n' over time, and the wild forest clearing was gradually tamed into the trimmed green carpet we obsess over today. (Not to be confused with the other 'lawn,' a fine linen fabric, which comes from Laon, a town in France once famous for it.)
- origin
- Aristocratic flex showing land too rich to farm
- water cost
- Largest irrigated crop in America, eaten by nobody
- grass clock
- Mowing keeps it forever young, never flowering
- royal roots
- French word laund meant a glade or clearing
- sound effect
- Crickets perform in grass by rubbing wings
wimbledon centre court — grass court where tennis grand slam is played since 1877
masters of ceremonies lawn — augusta national golf club's manicured bermuda grass, host of masters tournament
buckingham palace lawn — 40 acres of formal gardens in london where garden parties are held