sward

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And the pictures are ravishing: a Massachusetts lighthouse on a grassy sward under an azure sky; a winding two-lane road through New Zealand’s Southern Alps that disappears into the snow-dusted hulk of Mt.

From Washington Post • Jan. 10, 2018

Having lost five and drawn one of last season’s six Old Firm derbies, Rangers march out on to the Ibrox sward led by Graham Dorrans.

From The Guardian • Sep. 23, 2017

A replica was built in 1989 by the junta, which handed the vast sward of green that surrounds the palace to the military for use as a headquarters.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2016

Picture his bemusement when, out of the blue, he is invited to the du Pont estate, and gently deposited by private chopper on the sward.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 10, 2014

They rowed sadly along the shore, and turning into the swift-running channel they passed the green sward of Parth Galen.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien