aftergrass

Etymology

From after- + grass.

noun

  1. The grass that grows after the first crop has been mown.
    For the ordinarie times of foddring your fat cattell […] if they féede abroad, and take the benefit of Foggs and after-grasse, then to fodder them Morning, Euening, and high-noone is fully sufficient. 1614, Gervase Markham, chapter 7, in The Second Booke of the English Husbandman, London: John Browne, page 99
    This recess, towards the close of September, when the after-grass of the meadows is still a fresh green, with the leaves of many of the trees faded, but perhaps none fallen, is truly enchanting. 1820, William Wordsworth, The River Duddon, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, pages 44–45
    The cool silk of aftergrass under her bare feet 1974, John McGahern, The Leavetaking, Boston: Little, Brown, Part 1, p. 68

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