Gazon

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One of the pieces of sod used to line or cover parapets and the faces of earthworks.

Etymology

Borrowing from French gazon, from Middle French gazon, from Old French gason, wason (“piece of ground covered with grass, turf”), from Old Frankish *wasō (“ground, turf, sod”), from Proto-Germanic *wasô (“moisture; ground”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“moist, damp, wet”). Cognate with German Wasen (“lawn”), German Low German Waas (“bundle of twigs”), Dutch waas (“haze, mist, film”).

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