Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In fortification turf or sod used to line parapets and the traverses of galleries.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Fort.) One of the pieces of sod used to line or cover parapets and the faces of earthworks.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One of the pieces of sod used to line or cover parapets and the faces of earthworks.

Etymologies

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French gazon turf, from Old High German Waso, German Wasen.

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Examples

  • I once told our mechanic that our car ran on 'gazon' (grass).

    arrosoir - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • I once told our mechanic that our car ran on 'gazon' grass.

    arrosoir - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • Near the river there are also to be found carpets of a uniform green, consisting of a short kind of Equisetum, unmixed with any other plants, which forms a "gazon," to which no nobleman's country seat can show a match.

    The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866

  • Dat houdt in dat er een mooi open gazon neergelegd wordt met hierin op fraaie plekken clusters van drie grote bomen.

    weekly nathreee 2010

  • Mower désigne aussi bien une tondeuse à gazon qu'un charmant jeune homme qui tond le gazon à votre place.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Rene Meertens 2010

  • Déjà par endroits a pali le drap vert du gazon, mais le jet d'eau, clair, écume:

    Archive 2009-09-01 David McDuff 2009

  • Le jardinier a ouvert la bouche de la terre de la vallée de vie par un long tuyau il conduit l'eau sur le gazon.

    Archive 2009-09-01 David McDuff 2009

  • Le jardinier a ouvert la bouche de la terre de la vallée de vie par un long tuyau il conduit l'eau sur le gazon.

    Archive 2009-09-01 David McDuff 2009

  • We had considered les rouleaux de gazon, or rolls of grass, but decided to scatter seeds instead.

    Words in a French Life Kristin Espinasse 2007

  • REFERENCES: la pelouse (f) = grass; le gazon (m) = grass or lawn; Manou = endearment for the name Emmanuelle; for-mee-dah-bluh = formidable = great; gratter for it (Franglais) = scrape (save) or work for it

    Words in a French Life Kristin Espinasse 2007

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