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aftergrass

noun

Etymology

From after- + grass.

  1. inherited from *gʰreh₁-✻ — “to grow”
  2. inherited from *grasą✻ — “grass”
  3. inherited from *gras✻
  4. inherited from græs
  5. inherited from gras
  6. prefixed as aftergrass — “after + grass”

Definitions

  1. The grass that grows after the first crop has been mown.

    • For the ordinarie times of foddring your fat cattell […] if they féede abroad, and take the benefit of Foggs and after-grasse, then to fodder them Morning, Euening, and high-noone is fully sufficient.
    • This recess, towards the close of September, when the after-grass of the meadows is still of a fresh green, with the leaves of many of the trees faded, but perhaps none fallen, is truly enchanting.
    • The cool silk of aftergrass under her bare feet

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA