drying green

noun

A communal area attached to a tenement building, or less commonly in a public park, consisting of clothes lines and usually a grass surface, used primarily for the drying of clothes and sometimes also for recreational activities.

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Meanings

noundrying green (plural drying greens)

plural drying greens

  1. ScotlandA communal area attached to a tenement building, or less commonly in a public park, consisting of clothes lines and usually a grass surface, used primarily for the drying of clothes and sometimes also for recreational activities.
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APA

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Chicago

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