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English
Etymology
From after- + grass.
Noun
aftergrass (usually uncountable, plural aftergrasses)
- The grass that grows after the first crop has been mown.
- Synonyms: aftermath, eddish, fog, (obsolete) after-eatage
1614, Gervase Markham, chapter 7, in The Second Booke of the English Husbandman, London: John Browne, page 99:For the ordinarie times of foddring your fat cattell […] if they féede abroad, and take the benefit of Foggs and after-grasse, then to fodder them Morning, Euening, and high-noone is fully sufficient.
1820, William Wordsworth, The River Duddon, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, pages 44–45:This recess, towards the close of September, when the after-grass of the meadows is still a fresh green, with the leaves of many of the trees faded, but perhaps none fallen, is truly enchanting.
1974, John McGahern, The Leavetaking, Boston: Little, Brown, Part 1, p. 68:The cool silk of aftergrass under her bare feet
Translations
grass that grows after the first crop
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