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bluegrass

noun

Etymology

From the band Blue Grass Boys, led by Bill Monroe; bluegrass is first attested in print in reference to the genre of music in 1956.

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

Definitions

  1. Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis).

  2. A subgenre of country music with roots in Scots-Irish Appalachian folk music, blues, and…

    A subgenre of country music with roots in Scots-Irish Appalachian folk music, blues, and jazz and characterized by banjos, fiddles, acoustic guitars, dobros, and mandolins; but containing no drums, electric guitars, pianos or other keyboard or wind instruments; using a bass fiddle to carry its rhythm.

The neighborhood

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