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gazon

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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 gazons

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 d

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@misc{gazon_2026,
  title = {gazon},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gazon},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}