A lawn is an area of short, regularly cut grass, usually around a house, park, or building.
From Middle English *launde*, meaning a glade or open space in a forest, from Old French *lande*, a heath or clearing. The modern sense of carefully mowed grass developed later.
The perfect green lawn is a surprisingly recent status symbol, borrowed from European estates where only the rich could afford land that didn’t have to grow food. Keeping grass short and useless became a quiet way to say, “I have more than enough.”
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