ˈgrass-plat, -plot
[f. grass n.1 + plat, plot. In the compound word plot app. is the older form, though the simple plat is found in 1611.]
A piece of ground covered with turf, sometimes having ornamental flower-beds upon it.
| α 1697 C. Leslie Snake in Grass (ed. 2) 333 Upon a Grass-Plat before his Window..I saw some Women, very busie with their Bibles. 1727 Hall in Phil. Trans. XXXV. 309 The Snake being ty'd and pinn'd down to a Grass-plat. 1766 Goldsm. Vic. W. viii, Mr. Thornhill..intended that night giving the young ladies a ball by moonlight, on the grass plat before our door. 1818 Hazlitt Eng. Poets iv. (1870) 95 Artificial grass-plats [and] gravel-walks. 1897 Pall Mall Mag. Dec. 553 A statue in the centre of the grassplat. |
| β 1610 Shakes. Temp. iv. i. 73 Here on this grasse-plot, in this very place To come, and sport. 1685 Temple Wks. (1720) I. 183 Grass-Plots bordered with Flowers. 1770 Waring in Phil. Trans. LXI. 370 We have it plentifully..on the grass-plots about this house. 1876 M. E. Braddon J. Haggard's Dau. II. 17 The picture of grassplot and flower-bed. |