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 Translation for 'grass verge' from English to French
NOUN   a grass verge | grass verges
hort.
bordure {f}
grass verge
Partial Matches
bord {m} [aussi fig.]verge [also fig.]
à la limite de qc. {adv}on the verge of sth.
fin.
être au bord de l'abîme
to be on the verge of ruin
être sur le point de s'effondrerto be on the verge of collapse
trafic
bas-côté {m}
verge [Br.] [by side of a road]
filmF
Femmes au bord de la crise de nerfs
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown [Pedro Almodóvar (1988)]
bot.
graminée {f} [poaceae]
grass
bot.T
renouée {f} des oiseaux [Polygonum aviculare, syn. : P. aviculare subsp. aviculare]
mat grass
bot.T
posidonie {f} de Méditerranée [Posidonia oceanica]
Neptune grass
bot.T
renouée {f} des oiseaux [Polygonum aviculare, syn. : P. aviculare subsp. aviculare]
stone grass
bot.
revêtement {m} herbacé
grass cover
zool.T
pieuvre {f} à longs bras [Callistoctopus macropus, syn. : Octopus macropus]
grass octopus
agr.
pâturin {m}
meadow grass
agr.
gazon {m} [pelouse]
grass field
sport
gazon {m} [terrain]
grass pitch
sport
gazon {m} [terrain]
grass court
horl.sport
court {m} en gazon
grass court
agr.hort.
graine {f} de gazon
grass-seed
bot.T
herbe {f} aux écus [Lysimachia nummularia]
twopenny grass
zool.T
couleuvre {f} helvétique [Natrix natrix helvetica, syn. : Coluber helveticus, Natrix helvetica]
grass snake
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Usage Examples English
  • Lockgates for Lock 1 were hand built on the towpath/ grass verge to this lock, of the course of about 4 years.
  • A widened area in the grass verge at the southern end of the High Street where the High Street is joined by Sharnbrook Road marks where the tollbooth stood.
  • In 2009, a severed male forearm was discovered on a grass verge in Drovers Lane by a group of walkers.
  • There is no plaque to commemorate the station's history, the only reminder of it being the base of the goods yard crane which is situated on a grass verge near the entrance to the site.
  • As an Armco barrier on the outside of the corner eventually intersected with the grass verge, there was a significant lack of run off area for drivers forced wide on the bend.

  • It is characteristic, that to the front the buildings are separated by a broad grass verge to the main road and the backs of the properties are associated with the adjoining long plots that are accessed via a back lane.
  • Measures to stop these races include barriers erected on the centre grass verge which runs the length of this stretch, where people used to park to watch illegal road use.
  • In July 2020, the St Helens Linkway grass verge was chosen by St Helens Council as a site on which to plant yellow flowers in a large heart shape, in memory of all who had died during the coronavirus pandemic.
  • The cockpit crossed a small road (A595) Narrowly missing a van and ended up on the grass verge burning fiercely.
  • In August 2020, following an internal investigation, Devon County Council installed reflective plastic bollards along the outside of the bend at which the bus crash occurred, which at the time had been an unprotected soft grass verge.

  • Propagation is by seed, which is surface-sown directly into the garden or grass verge. The plant does not take well to transplanting and should not be moved after sowing.
  • There are no street trees on the south-western side of Collett Street and the setting is dominated by a flagstone clad cutting between the gutter and grass verge.
  • On the morning of Monday 12 September 1994 her body was discovered by a passing motorist on a grass verge on Weddington Road (the A444) in the Nuneaton and Warwickshire countryside.
  • In April 2014, a bus had crashed in to a grass verge of The Paddock. Two passengers were taken to Medway Maritime Hospital.
  • When road widening was undertaken in the mid-20th century it was moved to its present position surrounded by grass verge.

  • A subsequent court case ruled that demonstrations on a grass verge approaching the Gate Gourmet premises were not illegal, but limited the number and made the T&G responsible for their action.
  • half stone on a grass verge in Woodmancote. This was followed by another find of [...] on 23 March 2021 in Bishop's Cleeve.
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