bowling green
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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
The ball fizzed along the turf with a trajectory and precision usually seen on the bowling green – except this was played at defence-splitting speed.
From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2019
The site will see Spain's Field Farm in Weardale moved brick by brick to the open air museum, as well as the recreation of a chip shop, police houses, allotments and a bowling green.
From BBC • Oct. 12, 2016
The bowling green is no longer there, but Bowling Green Street is.
From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2016
It was a tolerably firm piece of turf about a hundred yards long by some twenty broad and almost as smooth as a bowling green.
From Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' by Pearce, Charles Edward
