| 单词 | cottage gardening |
| 释义 | > as lemmascottage gardening cottage gardening n. the action or process of creating, tending, or cultivating a cottage garden. ΚΠ 1817 Scots Mag. May 375/2 The Cottager's Companion, intended to instruct the labouring poor in the art of cottage gardening. 1903 Garden 24 Oct. 278/2 The increasing demand in country districts that the schoolmaster shall be competent to teach the elements of cottage gardening. 1909 Garden Mag. Dec. 229/2 The American style of cottage gardening must grow out of the fact that our labourers do not have as much time for gardening as the English. 1992 in A. Ravetz Place of Home (1995) ix. 176/1 The first [gardening style] had evolved from the English vernacular tradition of rural cottage gardening... The cottager's plot, with its fusion of vegetables, fruit and flowers was a model of efficiency and aesthetics. 2008 Sacramento (Calif.) Bee (Nexis) 13 Sept. d1 The thatched roof..combined with the relaxed yet abundant gardening style epitomizes cottage gardening. < as lemmas |
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