Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Newly or recently cut or mown.

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  • adjective That has recently been mown

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  • adjective newly mown

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Examples

  • He gazed out at the Golden Gate Bridge when he became aware of a scent that he had not smelled in a very long time: The sweet smell of new-mown grass wafting over on a breeze from San Francisco.

    Kate Kelly: Autobiography of Former Alcatraz Inmate Tells Interesting Story Kate Kelly 2011

  • He gazed out at the Golden Gate Bridge when he became aware of a scent that he had not smelled in a very long time: The sweet smell of new-mown grass wafting over on a breeze from San Francisco.

    Kate Kelly: Autobiography of Former Alcatraz Inmate Tells Interesting Story Kate Kelly 2011

  • The air at ground level was heavy with the aroma of drying peat, crushed thyme and the new-mown hay scent of sweet vernal grass.

    Country diary: Westgate, Weardale 2011

  • He gazed out at the Golden Gate Bridge when he became aware of a scent that he had not smelled in a very long time: The sweet smell of new-mown grass wafting over on a breeze from San Francisco.

    Kate Kelly: Autobiography of Former Alcatraz Inmate Tells Interesting Story Kate Kelly 2011

  • I can live it again—the little, Dutch ship—the blue waters—the smell of new-mown hay—Holland and the Rhine.

    DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

  • We were spirited off to his summertime cottage, which waited for us at the end of a long gravel drive, beside a long lawn that drowsed, green and new-mown, in the shade of occasional trees.

    "We're On Our Way Home Now, Duckie!" 2008

  • We were spirited off to his summertime cottage, which waited for us at the end of a long gravel drive, beside a long lawn that drowsed, green and new-mown, in the shade of occasional trees.

    "We're On Our Way Home Now, Duckie!" 2008

  • There was a heady aroma in the air, of new-mown hay, of the breeze after a rain, of every flower in the world in bloom at the same time.

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • Dreiser had left the sycamores, the new-mown hay, and the moonlight on the Wabash for the big city, and one evening at a party at his apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan he struck up a conversation with his friend and fellow Hoosier Franklin Booth, a well-known illustrator.

    Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010

  • We were spirited off to his summertime cottage, which waited for us at the end of a long gravel drive, beside a long lawn that drowsed, green and new-mown, in the shade of occasional trees.

    "We're On Our Way Home Now, Duckie!" 2008

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