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bowling green

NOUN
bowling alley
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For Grimsby boss Artell, a "bowling green" surface much closer in quality to the one his side stunned Manchester United on in the League Cup earlier this season would also have been preferable.

From BBC Feb. 15, 2026

Fillongley Provincial Park was an early-20th-century private estate, whose former bowling green is now a wildflower meadow ringed by imported deciduous trees.

From Seattle Times Feb. 3, 2023

When Dr. Slop offers witless barbs, Toby gently submits, wishing no harm on anyone, desiring only to potter about his bowling green, or to sit soothing a brother’s distress.

From Slate Feb. 8, 2016

The most eccentric of Glasheen's quirks is his insistence on maintaining a large – and largely brown – bowling green, which he cuts with a petrol-powered mower.

From The Guardian Apr. 23, 2013

In the square thus formed by the four buildings there was a bowling green, and gardens interspersed with oyster-shell walks.

From The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People by Haynie, Miriam




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