bluegrass

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See also: blue grass and Bluegrass

English

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bluegrass (Poa pratensis) young seed heads

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (US):(file)

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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bluegrass (countable and uncountable, plural bluegrasses)

  1. Kentucky bluegrass, Poa pratensis.
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Etymology 2

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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.

Noun

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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.
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References

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

Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English bluegrass.

Noun

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bluegrass

  1. bluegrass

Spanish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English bluegrass.

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bluegrass m (uncountable)

  1. bluegrass (a style of country music)

Usage notes

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According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.