单词 | gazon |
释义 | † gazon Obs. [a. F. gazon grass; pl. pieces of turf; a. OHG. waso (MHG. wase, G. wasen) sod, turf, damp soil, or mass of earth.] A sod or piece of turf, used in fortification (see quots.).
1704Harris Lex. Techn., Gazons, in Fortification, are pieces of fresh Earth covered with Grass, cut in form of a Wedge, about a Foot long, and half a Foot thick, to line parapets, and the Traverses of Galleries. 1759Sterne Tr. Shandy ii. v. 70, ‘I would make the walls and parapets with sods too’. ‘The best engineers call them gazons, Trim’, said my uncle Toby. 1768in T. Simes Milit. Medley Dict. 1802in C. James Milit. Dict. b. attrib., as gazon-theatre.
1699Evelyn Acetaria (1729) 119 Gazon-Theatres, Amphi⁓theatres, Artificial Echos. |

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