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bluegrass

/bloo-gras, -grahs/US // ˈbluˌgræs, -ˌgrɑs //UK // (ˈbluːˌɡrɑːs) //

蓝草,蓝莓,蓝草音乐,蓝草地

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any grass of the genus Poa, as the Kentucky bluegrass, P. pratensis, having dense tufts of bluish-green blades and creeping rhizomes.
    • : country music that is polyphonic in character and is played on unamplified stringed instruments, with emphasis especially on the solo banjo.
    • : the Bluegrass. Bluegrass Region.

Examples

  • In bluegrass parlance, he often sang “high baritone” and “low tenor,” the middle harmony parts.

  • In live performance, the group reverted to the style of the earliest bluegrass bands by having the entire group gather around one microphone for their vocals and solos.

  • Dozens of musicians passed through the outfit, and its repertoire embraced the music of Bob Dylan, the Beatles and Gordon Lightfoot, greatly broadening the audience for bluegrass.

  • I’ve been going to local outdoor concerts and swing dancing to bluegrass and folk, and while I don’t know many of the songs, the feeling they capture is all I need from my summer of music.

  • You’ll also find family-friendly events like live bluegrass and clogging at the Pollock Dining Room, plus the Mountain Taproom.

  • The law has been on the books in the Bluegrass State for a long time.

  • The Bluegrass State is eager to grow hemp for the purposes of research and commerce.

  • The race was called minutes after polls closed in the Bluegrass State.

  • Bluegrass Tea Partiers will need major reinforcements to even have a hope of defeating the veteran senator.

  • Scotts Miracle Gro made a pest resistant Kentucky bluegrass in 2011 using the same technology.

  • He looked like a mountaineer and could hardly be expected to measure up to the bluegrass requirements of courtesy.

  • Now, he had come down here to the cultured bluegrass, and was being pointed out as something of a hero.

  • In his mountains such an association would have been tantamount to an engagement, but here in the bluegrass it was different.

  • Over this land was brooding one of those days of rare charm that sometimes come to the bluegrass about the first of July.

  • The militia officer from the bluegrass, who had come to act as umpire, masked his smile as he judged that contest.