Obs. Also 4 clour, 5–6 clower. Surface of the ground, grassy ground, sward, turf.
c. 1350. Medical MS., in Archæol., XXX. 387. Of alle erbys yt growy in clour Most bitter I holde his sawour.
c. 1460. Lydg., Order of Fools, 44, in Q. Eliz. Acad., 81. A gosselyng that grasethe on bareyne clowrys [rhyme-wd. showrys].
c. 1485. Digby Myst. (1882), III. 294. Vndyr clower is now my fathyris cure.
1565. Golding, Ovid’s Met., IV. (1593), 88. The utmost borders from the brim invirond were with clowres [vivo Cespite cinguntur]. Ibid., VIII. 205. Yet would I make it yer I go To kisse the clowers with hir top.
