Gazon

I once told our mechanic that our car ran on 'gazon' (grass). ❋ Unknown (2008)

I once told our mechanic that our car ran on 'gazon' grass. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Near the river there are also to be found carpets of a uniform green, consisting of a short kind of Equisetum, unmixed with any other plants, which forms a "gazon," to which no nobleman's country seat can show a match. ❋ Alexander Leslie (1866)

Dat houdt in dat er een mooi open gazon neergelegd wordt met hierin op fraaie plekken clusters van drie grote bomen. ❋ Nathreee (2010)

Mower désigne aussi bien une tondeuse à gazon qu'un charmant jeune homme qui tond le gazon à votre place. ❋ Rene Meertens (2010)

Déjà par endroits a pali le drap vert du gazon, mais le jet d'eau, clair, écume: ❋ David McDuff (2009)

Le jardinier a ouvert la bouche de la terre de la vallée de vie par un long tuyau il conduit l'eau sur le gazon. ❋ David McDuff (2009)

We had considered les rouleaux de gazon, or rolls of grass, but decided to scatter seeds instead. ❋ Kristin Espinasse (2007)

REFERENCES: la pelouse (f) = grass; le gazon (m) = grass or lawn; Manou = endearment for the name Emmanuelle; for-mee-dah-bluh = formidable = great; gratter for it (Franglais) = scrape (save) or work for it ❋ Kristin Espinasse (2007)

Isa, in a long black linen dress, puts her glass down, gathers the sides of her dress, and leaps out onto the gazon. ❋ Kristin Espinasse (2007)

From the "Ménagier de Paris," a work of the end of the fourteenth century, one learns that behind a dwelling of a prince or noble of the time was usually to be found a "_beau jardin tout planté d'arbres à fruits, de legumes, de rosiers, orné de volières et tapisé de gazon sur lesquels se promènent les paons_." ❋ Blanche McManus (N/A)

Le clouaient au gazon tout baigné dans son sang; 55 ❋ Unknown (1920)

Quelquefois ils volent a travers les arbres, et quelquefois ils couchent sur le gazon et autour de l'etang. ❋ Oscar Wilde (1877)

How true the French adage -- "C'est plus facile de glisser sur la gazon que sur la glace." ❋ Charles James Lever (1839)

But the book I have been consulting most keenly, the book most likely actually to influence my future behaviour, is the sequel to Pour un jardin sans arrosage, by the great pioneer of dry gardening, Olivier Filippi: Alternatives au gazon Actes Sud, €39. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Turn your eyes towards the promenade, "said Crony," and observe that constellation of beauties, three in number, who move along _le verd gazon_: they are denominated the _Red Rose_, the _Moss Rose_, and the ❋ Robert Cruikshank (1828)

One was addressed to us from the flag-ship; I was signal midshipman; but instead of directing my glass towards the old _Centurion_, it was levelled at a certain young Calypso, whose fair form I discovered wandering along the "_gazon fleuris_:" how long would I not have dwelt in this happy Arcadia, had not another Mentor pushed me off the rocks, and sent me once more to buffet the briny waves! ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

L'air y est pure, le gazon d'un beau vert; en plus d'un endroit mon oeil se refraichit aux eaux argentines qui jaillissant en gerbes du sommet des monts; la sterilité dont une partie de ces campagnes fut frappée dès la naissance du monde, rend plus douce par le contraste l'apparence de fertilité que je remarquai dans le sol d'Alvona. ❋ Michael Russell (1814)