单词 | pleached |
释义 | pleachedadj. 1. Chiefly poetic. Fenced, bordered, or overarched with pleached boughs.Revived by Scott. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [adjective] > having arbours pleached1600 arboured1610 bowery1713 boweringa1717 embowering1717 bowered1746 bower-enshaded1816 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing i. ii. 8 The prince and Count Claudio walking in a thicke pleached alley in mine orchard. View more context for this quotation 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. i. 7 Bid her steale into the pleached bowere Where hony-suckles ripened by the sunne, Forbid the sunne to enter. View more context for this quotation 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. x. 263 He..proposed..that they should take a turn in the pleached alley. 1829 N. M. Beatrice in A. Cunningham Anniversary 232 She couches in the pleached bower Which tasselling honeysuckles deck. 1904 E. Wharton Ital. Villas i. 34 Montaigne alludes to the berceaux, or pleached walks, and to the close-set cypresses which made a delicious coolness in this garden. 1952 S. Sitwell Netherlands (ed. 2) ix. 124 They had a particular love, too, for pleached walks, and their gardens were divided into as many green ‘rooms’ or cabinets as they could contrive. 1987 R. Manning Corridor of Mirrors vi. 44 There are trees all around the new house: the lane up to it is like a pleached alley. 2. Interlaced, intertwined, tangled. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > arm > [adjective] > positions of cross-armed1601 acrostic1608 pleacheda1616 unbraced1629 the world > space > relative position > intertwining or interweaving > [adjective] > intertwined or interwoven writhenOE twinedc1300 locked1488 wreathena1500 plait1529 implicatec1540 context?1541 twisted1548 weaved1552 wreathed?1552 texed1572 well-woven1578 woven1590 interlaced1593 entrailed1599 entest1608 implicit1608 folden1612 inextricate?1615 intertissueda1616 complicatea1626 enwreathed1631 interwoven1642 inwoven1667 intertwineda1680 plectilea1682 well-wove1690 implicated1761 osiered1820 inwrought1824 complected1828 impleached1829 internetted1849 enlaced1851 threaded1853 interknit1885 interwrought1895 pleached1896 interweaved1898 a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iv. xv. 73 Would'st thou..see Thy Master thus with pleacht Armes, bending downe His corrigible necke? View more context for this quotation 1896 Field 1 Dec. 828/2 The pleached laurels near the house. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 280 It was hedged with thickly pleached bushes. 1992 Univ. Oxf. Bot. Garden News Winter 11 At the International Headquarters of Pepsico can be found a large garden designed by Russell Page. Near the building he has created a modern variation of cloisters in small quadrangles, using impatiens and pleached trees. 3. Consisting of intertwined boughs and twigs; formed by pleaching. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > hedging > [adjective] > construction of pleached1861 staked-and-bound1861 1861 G. J. Whyte-Melville Tilbury Nogo 240 An occasional grass field, enclosed by high rotten banks and ‘pleached’ fences. 1895 A. Machen Three Imposters 103 The children were delighted to follow me..between smooth pleached walls of shining beech. 1958 J. Finberg Exploring Villages v. 84 It is generally safe to guess that a pleached hedge in the midlands is not more than two hundred years old. 2003 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 15 Mar. 1 At the top of the garden box hedges and pleached arbours are laid out in traditional patterns. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1600 |
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