"turfy" meaning in English

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          "text": "Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep,",
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          "ref": "1762, James Macpherson, “Croma”, in Fingal, London: T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, p. 254, footnote:",
          "text": "The wind still sounds between the hills: and whistles through the grass of the rock. The firs fall from their place. The turfy hut is torn.",
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          "text": "“Can you see many long weeds and nettles amongst the graves; or do they look turfy and flowery?”",
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          "ref": "1953, Saul Bellow, chapter 26, in The Adventures of Augie March, New York: Viking Press, →OCLC, page 535:",
          "text": "[…] the fields […] were brown, turfy and stiff, these fields where battles of the Hundred Years’ War had been fought,",
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        "Of, pertaining to, or constructed of turf."
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          "ref": "1852, Louisa Anne Meredith, chapter 11, in My Home in Tasmania, volume 2, London: John Murray, pages 154–155:",
          "text": "Good and fearless horse-women themselves, their whole delight seemed to be in the discussion of matters pertaining to the stable; and when meeting any young lady friend from a distance, the first questions were not enquiries after parents, sisters, brothers, or friends: no, nor even the lady-beloved talk of weddings and dress; but the discourse almost invariably took a “turfy” turn, that was, to say the least, unfeminine in the extreme.",
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          "text": "Made up with curls, wreaths, wings, white bismuth, and carmine, this hopeful young person soared into so pleasing a Cupid as to constitute the chief delight of the maternal part of the spectators; but, in private, where his characteristics were a precocious cutaway coat and an extremely gruff voice, he became of the Turf, turfy.",
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          "ref": "1895, Henry Seton Merriman, chapter 14, in The Sowers, New York: Harper, page 121:",
          "text": "When a Frenchman is horsey he never runs the risk of being mistaken for a groom or a jockey, as do his turfy compeers in England.",
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        "Relating to or involved with horses or horse-racing."
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        "(obsolete) Relating to or involved with horses or horse-racing."
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