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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bluegrass
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I see it a lot in the Southeast and some of the most popular bluegrass bands.
▪ If you're new to bluegrass, it's a great introduction.
▪ One is that bluegrass seems to be getting more and more slick and commercial.
▪ The classical mandolin -- as opposed to its slightly different bluegrass cousin -- looks like a stunted lute.
▪ The first and third Tuesdays feature old-time and Celtic, and the second Thursday is bluegrass.
▪ They brought bluegrass to the masses via groundbreaking early recordings.
▪ They went on to popularize bluegrass, becoming favorites on the college circuit.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bluegrass

also blue-grass, music style, 1958, in reference to the Blue Grass Boys, country music band 1940s-'50s, from the "blue" grass (Poa pratensis) characteristic of Kentucky, the grass so called from 1751. Kentucky has been called the Bluegrass State since at least 1872; see blue (n.) + grass.

Wiktionary
bluegrass

alt. 1 (context countable English) (vern: Kentucky bluegrass), (taxlink Poa pretensis species noshow=1). 2 (context uncountable English) A style 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. n. 1 (context countable English) (vern: Kentucky bluegrass), (taxlink Poa pretensis species noshow=1). 2 (context uncountable English) A style 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.

WordNet
bluegrass

  1. n. any of various grasses of the genus Poa [syn: blue grass]

  2. an area in central Kentucky notied for it bluegrass and thoroughbred horses [syn: Bluegrass Country, Bluegrass Region]

  3. a type of country music played at a rapid tempo on banjos and guitars

Wikipedia
Bluegrass

Bluegrass refers to several species of grasses of the genus Poa (with the most famous being the Kentucky bluegrass)

The term has also been applied to various things that relate to the region in which the grass grows:

  • Bluegrass region, a region of the United States centered in Kentucky
  • Bluegrass music, a form of American roots music
  • The Blue Grass Boys, the band led by Bill Monroe that defined the Bluegrass genre
  • Bluegrass & Backroads, a television show about people and places in the Bluegrass region
Other uses
  • Blue Grass, Iowa, a small city
  • Blue Grass, Virginia
  • Blue Grass Army Depot in Richmond, Kentucky
  • Bluegrass (Sirius)
  • Bluegrass (train), a passenger train of the Monon Railroad
Bluegrass (Sirius)

Bluegrass was a Bluegrass music satellite radio channel on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 65 and DISH Network channel 6065

The channel was merged with XM Satellite Radio's Bluegrass Junction in November 2008, following the merger of the two services.

Usage examples of "bluegrass".

But it was the young bluegrass and ripening fescue and feather grasses that predominated, turning the steppes into waves of softly billowing silver accented by shadows of blue sage.

Yet even as a child he had thought of barns and foals, of Kentucky and bluegrass and horses.

And covers, done in a conjunto style, with a little bluegrass mixed in.

Jupiter, a ground cover, not of daisies, strawberries, clover, and Kentucky bluegrass, but of toxic, primordial jelly.

I thank my son Eric for feedback on bluegrass music, and my son Jeremy for feedback on corporate names and business dealings.

Graham usually had music on something soft, often bluegrass, perhaps Alison Krauss or Darrell Scott, both of whom they loved--but there was nothing playing tonight.

Countryside covered with pink wild roses, blazing goldenrod and waving prairie grass suddenly turned into perfect sections of bluegrass and gray pavement sprinkled with plastic swing sets and Big Wheels.

Maybe a few hours of peaceful sightseeing in the Bluegrass country around Lexington.

Ten years ago they flocked to this place like pilgrims to the shrine-- not just from the nearby Bluegrass towns, but from all over the nation.

North, thru the heart of the Bluegrass, west toward Louisville, east into the mountains, or south to Tennessee.

Not much to hurry about in the Bluegrass, specially in the winter when the trees are bare and the barns are white with frost and most folks are inside by the stove.

Never has she proposed an outing involving smoked pork and bluegrass in a backyard.

A young man materialized as Katy and I were adding our chairs to a semicircle facing the bluegrass boys.

Those on the house side of the bluegrass quartet continued their milling and chatting and eating, oblivious to whatever calamity might be unfolding in the woods.

Threw myself on the back of Bluegrass Prince and snatched loose the reins from a thunderstruck groom and was away.