† clowren.
Obsolete.
Surface of the ground, grassy ground, sward, turf.
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c1350 Medical MS. in Archæol. XXX. 387 Of alle erbys yt growy in clour Most bitter I holde his sawour.
c1470 J. Lydgate Order of Fools 44 in H. Gilbert Queene Elizabethes Achademy (1869) i. 81 A gosselyng that grasethe on bareyne clowrys [rhyme-wd. showrys].
c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 294 Vndyr clower is now my fathyris cure.
1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis iv. f. 5 The vtmost borders from the brym enuirond were with clowres [L. vivo Cespite cinguntur].
1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) viii. f. 108 Yet would I make it ere I go Too kisse the clowers with her top.
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