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grassture en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of grass + pasture.

Meanings

1. (childish, humorous, nonstandard) A grassy pasture.
   • "It's a picture I drew of some cows standing in a grassture." (Linus) 1967, Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts, 7/6/1967:
   • "He maketh me to sigh town in lean grasstures; he pleadeth me beside the ill daughters ..." 1970, Edward Stewart, Rock Rude, Simon & Schuster, page 264:
   • And spiderweb roads are silhouetted in the vague, rough, lush pastures, greens of ‘grasstures.’ 1971 Dec, Gillian Edmonds, “The World”, in The Rotarian, page 29:
   • Alaina tells you that she saw cows standing in a “grassture” during her trip to Kentucky. 2010, Mary R. Jalongo, Early Childhood Language Arts, 5th edition, Allyn & Bacon:

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