rea of, field or green may be used, depending on the sport and the continent.

The term "lawn", referring to a managed grass space, dates to no earlier than the 16th century.
Tied to suburban expansion and the creation of the household aesthetic, the lawn is an important
aspect of the interaction between the natural environment and the constructed urban and
suburban space.[2] In many suburban areas, there are bylaws in place requiring houses to have
lawns and requiring the proper maintenance soil-covered land planted with grasses and other
durable plants such as clover which are maintained at a short height with a lawnmower and used
for aesthetic and recreational purposes. Common characteristics of a lawn are that it is
composed only of grass species, it is subject to weed and pest control, it is subject to practices
aimed at maintaining its green color (e.g., watering), and it is regularly mowed to ensure an
acceptable length,[1] although these characteristics are not binding as a definition. Lawns are
used around houses, apartments, commercial buildings and offices. Many city parks also have
large lawn areas. In recreational contexts, the specialised names turf, pitch manage. They were
not a part of gardens in other regions and cultures of the world until contemporary influencee
garden style with the design of natural, or "romantic", estate settings for wealthy
Englishmen.[7] Brown, remembered amanor houses, and in some places were maintained by the
labor-intensive methods scything and shearing. In most situations, they were also pasture may
have originated as grassed enclosures within early medieval settlements used for comme up of
meadow plants, such as camomile, a particular favorite. In the early 17th century,
the Jacobean epoch of gardening began; during this period, the closely cut "English" lawn was
born. By the end of this period, the o became popular with the aristocracy in
northern Europe from the Middle Ages onward. The early lawns were not always distinguishable
from pasture fields. The damp climate of maritime Western Europe in the north made lawns
possible to grow and land maintained through grazing by sheep or other livestock. Areas s
"England's greatest gardener", desi sheep over a long period often form a very low, tight sward
similar to a modern lawn. This was the original meaning of the word "lawn", and the term can still
be found in place names. Some forest areas where extensive grazing is practiced still have these
seminatural lawns. For example, in the owner could afford to keep land that was not being used
for a building, or for food production.the meaning of enclosure, often in relation to a place of
worship.
Lawns
In the early 18th century, landscape gardening for the aristocracy entered a golden age, und
awns English lawn was a symbol of status of the aristocracy and gentry; it showed that the
ownerunal grazing of livestock, as distinct from fields reserved for agriculture. The word "laune"
is first attested in 1540,[5] and is likely related to the Celtic Brythonic word lan/llan/laun, which has
.
[clarification needed] [6]

Before the invention of mowing machines in 1830, lawns were managed very differently. They
were an element of wealthy estates and of grass grazed regularly by rabbits, horses or New
Forest, England, such grazed areas are common, and are known as lawns, for example Balmer
Lawn. Lawns similar to those of today first appeared in France and England in the 1700s
when André Le Nôtre designed the gardens of Versailles that included a small area of grass
called the tapis vert, or "green carpet".
lawn is an a
of these lawns. In some jurisdictions where there are water shortages, local government
authorities are encouraging alternatives to lawns to reduce water use.