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adjective
Turfy  adj.  (compar. turfier; superl. turfiest)  
1.
Abounding with turf; made of, or covered with, turf. "The turfy mountains."
2.
Having the nature or appearance of turf.
3.
Of or pertaining to the turf, or horse racing.





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"Turfy" Quotes from Famous Books



... Lord Keppel, set forth for the spot where she kept her net covered with sea-weed. The sun, though up and brisk already upon sea and foreland, had not found time to rout the shadows skulking in the dingles. But even here, where sap of time had breached the turfy ramparts, the hover of the dew-mist passed away, and the steady light ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol. 5 • Various
... coming from over the ridge, one day—it was the 15th of May, '28—and when I got to the edge of the oak forest and was about to step out of it upon the turfy open space in which the haunted beech tree stood, I happened to cast a glance from cover, first—then I took a step backward, and stood in the shelter and concealment of the foliage. For I had caught sight of Joan, and thought I would devise some sort of playful ...
— Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc - Volume 1 (of 2) • Mark Twain
... quarter the wind may blow, it sends in some of his plate-glass. Another spoils a pretty bit of crag by building below it, and has two or three tons of stone dropped through his roof, the first frosty night. Another occupies the turfy slope of some soft lake promontory, and has his cook washed away by the first flood. We do not remember ever having seen a dwelling-house destroying the effect of a landscape, of which, considered merely as a habitation, we should wish ...
— The Poetry of Architecture • John Ruskin


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