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Lawned - is it a word

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  • I think you can use it as an adjective but not as the past participle of a verb.

     

    p.s. edited to agree with "so........... "  !

  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328

    Tommy83, the trouble with using "grass" for "lawn" in my garden is that the green, flat bit is in fact only about 40% grass, with 20% wild flowers (sounds so much better than weeds!) and 40% moss.  I suppose "turf" would cover it...  image

    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • Tommy83Tommy83 Posts: 8

    Liriodendron I would call it a turfed area too.

  • WelshonionWelshonion Posts: 3,114
    Would turfed not look odd in an estate agent's description?
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,138
    Welshonion wrote (see)
    Would turfed not look odd in an estate agent's description?

    I think that implies that it has been laid with turf, whereas it might have been originally sown.


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Tommy83Tommy83 Posts: 8

    I would use either turfed or grassed, or that it has a lawn in the rear and front of the property. I think estate agents have created the word by abbreviating what should be a small description of what lawns the property has in the area.  You wouldn't say the school has a football pitched area in the back, or the cottage comes with a fielded area.

  • WelshonionWelshonion Posts: 3,114
    To split a hair, Take one hair...........................
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