turfy
Example Sentences
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“It’s a classically Irish palette, balancing the turfy and the moony.”
From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2021
It’s a classically Irish palette, balancing the turfy and the moony.
From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2021
White swans and yellow punts rippled on the gentle blue Avon, and along its turfy banks, lovers lolled and plum trees flowered.
From Time Magazine Archive
A snatch of turfy drumming, then I went flying over a ruck and the ground booted the air out of me and I got a glimpse of a leaping dog's flank.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
It occurs in the extensive turfy marshes of Bothnia, in the northern parts of Sweden.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William
