gazon

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

Etymology

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”).

noun

One of the pieces of sod used to line or cover parapets and the faces of earthworks.

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Words closest in meaning

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graffage 59% match — The scarp of a ditch or moat. vs gazon →
grassed 58% match — Covered with grass; having a surface on which grass is growing. vs gazon →
begrassed 56% match — Covered with grass. vs gazon →
grassplat 56% match — A plot of land on which grass grows. vs gazon →
greenswarded 54% match — Having green grass growing upon it. vs gazon →
greensward 53% match — A tract of land that is green with grass. vs gazon →
yardgrass 53% match — Grass in a lawn. vs gazon →
herbaged 53% match — Covered with grass. vs gazon →