Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as scouring-rush.

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Examples

  • I painted a dismal swamp overshadowed by lowering clouds, where, in the shave-grass and the gigantic ferns, strange extinct beasts wandered slowly.

    The Story of a Child Pierre Loti 1886

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