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单词 flowerknot
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flower-knot
flower-knot n. a small flower-bed arranged in a pattern.
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1758 J. Armstrong Sketches 14 The sweet green..is the predominant Colour; while the gaudy Flowers..are carelessly interspersed. This is infinitely more pleasing and beautiful than..a Flower-knot.
1893 J. Salisbury Gloss. Words S.E. Worcs. Flower-knot, a small flower bed.
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flower-knot
7. A flower-bed laid out in a fanciful or intricate design; also, more generally, Any laid-out garden plot; a flower-knot. Now chiefly dialect.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [noun] > bed or plot > flower-bed
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knot1502
cutwork1693
flower-border1712
panel1803
flower-court1828
mixed bed1866
flower-bed1873
carpet-bed1883
coffin1912
floral clock1925
1502 Acc. in A. Amherst Gardening (1895) 84 For diligence in making knottes in the Duke's garden. Clypping of knottes, and sweeping the said garden.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxxxviii. f. clxv An howse wrought lykevnto a knot in a garden called a mase.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 65 Basyl..[is] an hearbe that is vsed to be set in the middest of knottes,..for the excellent sauoure that it hath.
1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman xvi. 207 Here are the goodliest walkes in Europe, for the trees themselues are placed in curious knots as we vse to set our herbes in gardens.
1667 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) ii. v. 97 They do not water the Walks of the Garden, but only the Beds or Knots wherein the Flowers grow.
1737 G. Smith Curious Relations I. i. 49 The Borders of the Beds were lin'd with Box, and beautifully garnish'd with choice Flowers, as were the Knots, in each of which stood a handsome Pot of a choice foreign Plant.
1758 J. Armstrong Sketches 14 More pleasing and beautiful than that insipid, childish, uncomfortable Bawble called a Flower-knot.
1824 S. Ferrier Inheritance II. xxxvi. 399 I must see if my flower knots are arranging according to rule.
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