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gazon

gazon noun: one of the pieces of sod used to line or cover parapets and the faces of earthworks.

Noun

gazon (plural gazons)

  1. One of the pieces of sod used to line or cover parapets and the faces of earthworks.
    • —I would throw out the earth upon this hand towards the town for the scarp,—and on that hand towards the campaign for the counterscarp.—Very right, Trim, quoth my uncle Toby:—And when I had sloped them to your mind,——an’ please your Honour, I would face the glacis, as the finest fortifications are...1659, Laurence Sterne, chapter XXX, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Forms of gazon

pluralgazons

Origin of gazon

Borrowing from French gazon, from Middle French gazon, from Old French gason, wason (“piece of ground covered with grass, turf”), from Old Frankish *wasō (“ground, turf, sod”), from Proto-Germanic *wasô (“moisture; ground”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“moist, damp, wet”). Cognate with German Wasen (“lawn”), German Low German Waas (“bundle of twigs”), Dutch waas (“haze, mist, film”).

Questions about gazon

What does gazon mean?
Gazon means one of the pieces of sod used to line or cover parapets and the faces of earthworks.
What part of speech is gazon?
Gazon is a noun.
What is the plural of gazon?
The plural of gazon is gazons.

Words near gazon in the dictionary

  1. gazogene
  2. gazogenes
  3. gazomba
  4. gazombas
  5. gazometric
  6. gazon
  7. gazonga
  8. gazongas
  9. gazons
  10. gazoo
  11. gazook

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