Back green
noun
(central scot, dialect) gr-ss or a garden at the back of a house, esp a tenement
historical examples
crown and back green, and tail rusty tipped with dusky, no notch in tail-feathers; in other respects like no. 433.
color key to north american birds frank m. chapman
the window looked out on the back green, which was very much like the front, save that there was no flagged walk.
lippincott’s magazine of popular literature and science, vol. xxvi., december, 1880. various
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