turfedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

turfed (not generally comparable, comparative more turfed, superlative most turfed)

1. Constructed from turf.
   • 1858 July, “Trebizonde and Erzeroum”, in The National Magazine, OCLC 1759297, page 6:

     The space of ground taken up by a rich man's house is prodigious, the turfed roof forming a small field.

   • 1905, Saga Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research, OCLC 1769140, page 379:

     Viðimyri church is almost the only specimen remaining of a turf church. It looks outside very like a neatly turfed cottage, with the ornament of crossed planks with carved ends on its wooden front gable.

2. Covered or adorned with turf or grass.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, “Of Gardens”, in Royal Collection Trust^[1]:

     For aviaries, I like them not, except they be of that largeness as they may be turfed, and have living plants and bushes set in them; that the birds may have more scope, and natural nestling, and that no foulness appear in the floor of the aviary.

   • 1988, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Preservation of petroglyphs in Albuquerque, New Mexico^[2], page 225:

     3. The course should use a minimal amount of fairway area, rather than being completely turfed from tee box to green.