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• blue grass

語源 1

From blue +‎ grass, from the bluish appearance of the massed grass in late Spring.

名詞

bluegrass (countable and uncountable, plural bluegrasses)

1. Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis).

派生語

参照

• Poa pratensis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Poa pratensis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Poa pratensis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

語源 2

From the band Blue Grass Boys, led by Bill Monroe; bluegrass is first attested in print in reference to the genre of music in 1956.

名詞

bluegrass (uncountable)

1. (music, uncountable) A subgenre of country music with roots in Scots-Irish Appalachian folk music, blues, and jazz and characterized by banjos, fiddles, acoustic guitars, dobros, and mandolins; but containing no drums, electric guitars, pianos or other keyboard or wind instruments; using a bass fiddle to carry its rhythm.

派生語

参考

• high lonesome sound

参照

• “bluegrass”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• 2001. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: North America. Garland Publishing. Ellen Koskoff (Ed.) Pgs. 158-159.