单词 | grapery |
释义 | graperyn. A building, made mainly of glass, in which grapes are grown; a plantation of vines; a vinery. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > greenhouse or glass-house > grape-house grape-house1789 vinery1789 grapery1812 muscat-house1855 1812 M. Edgeworth Absentee vi, in Tales Fashionable Life VI. 23 She led the way to a little conservatory, and a little pinery, and a little grapery. 1815 ‘J. Mathers’ Hist. Mr. John Decastro & Brother Bat I. 175 Mr. Decastro..planted graperies. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xlii. 383 A fine villa..where there were beautiful graperies and peach-trees. 1885 Church Times 2 Apr. 269/2 Pineries, graperies, hot-houses, and the like. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.1812 |
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