Putting green n. (Golf) The green, or plot of smooth turf, surrounding a hole. "The term putting green shall mean the ground within twenty yards of the hole, excepting hazards."
... as I was wondering whose windows I'd break when I went down, it began to thin out, and slipped away as quickly as it had come. And I was right above the golf links on Wimbledon Common. I volplaned down, and landed on a putting green, and an old colonel who'd been invalided home from India said I'd done it on purpose, and he was going ... — The Boy Scouts on the Trail • George Durston Read full book for free!
... art we call it "value." You can only get quite bright red by putting green round it. But that's not to the ... — The Live Corpse • Leo Tolstoy Read full book for free!