gazon

Meaning

Noun

• One of the pieces of sod used to line or cover parapets and the faces of earthworks.

Origin

• Borrowing from French gazon, from Middle French gazon, from Old French gason, wason, from Old Frankish *waso ("ground, turf"), from Proto-Germanic *wasô ("moisture; ground"), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- ("moist, damp, wet"). Cognate with German Wasen ("lawn").