Lexic.us

Definition of Bluegrass country

1. Noun. An area in central Kentucky noted for it bluegrass and thoroughbred horses.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bluegrass Country

Literary usage of Bluegrass country

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. All That's Kentucky: An Anthology by Josiah Henry Combs (1915)
"THE bluegrass country Oh, the splendor and the luxury There's no one knows, That lurks in Old Kentucky, Where the bluegrass grows. ..."

2. Local History in Kentucky Literature by Otto Arthur Rothert, Louisville literary club (1915)
""The Belle of the bluegrass country," (1906), by Hanna Daviess Pittman, has for its background Harrodsburg, and High Bridge, and the Shaker Settlement at ..."

3. Agricultural Economics by Henry Charles Taylor (1921)
"These counties contain the blue limestone region known as the heart of the bluegrass country. This is a region of unusual natural fertility. ..."

4. History of Manufactures in the United States by Victor Selden Clark (1916)
"Meantime another center for long-wooled mutton breeds grew up in Kentucky and Tennessee, especially in the bluegrass country, ..."

5. Soils: Their Formation, Properties, Composition, and Relations to Climate by Eugene Woldemar Hilgard (1921)
"Thus this is seen in passing from the mountain region of Kentucky into the " bluegrass " country, which is throughout underlaid by calcareous formations; ..."

6. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association, Richard Rogers Bowker, Charles Ammi Cutter (1907)
"... and at the close of day may look out upon the bluegrass country, as Daniel Boone did, and watch the short southern twilight abruptly close in flames and ..."

7. The Compromises of Life, and Other Lectures and Addresses, Including Some by Henry Watterson (1903)
"There are as many church-bells in the bluegrass country as in the Bay State country, and they send the same sweet notes to Heaven and sound exactly alike. ..."

8. Soils--their Formation, Properties, Composition, and Relations to Climate by Eugene Woldemar Hilgard (1906)
"... passing from the mountain region of Kentucky into the " bluegrass " country, which is throughout underlaid by calcareous formations; and thus, likewise, ..."

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