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单词 rosiery
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rosieryn.

Brit. /ˈrəʊz(ɪ)əri/, U.S. /ˈroʊʒ(ə)ri/
Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: rosery n., rosary n.
Etymology: Probably a variant of rosery n. or rosary n. (compare sense 3 at that entry), after rosier n.
Now rare.
A rose garden; = rosery n.In quot. 1897 as a proper name.
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rosaire?1440
rosary?1440
rose yard?c1475
rose garden1535
rosery1745
rosiery1791
rosarium1822
1791 A. Seward Lett. (1811) III. 81 The rosiery will not, I trust, have exhausted all its bloom and fragrance..before I reach you.
1831 New Sporting Mag. Apr. 445 As for the trim and well-cropped garden,..not a vestige would have been traceable of it in the shaven and speckless lawn, forming the velvet foot-way to the meanders of ‘my Ladys’ foreign parterre and rosiery.
1870 ‘Ouida’ Tricotrin ix. 103 She wandered on..as idly and as gayly as a bird wanders through a rosiery.
1897 A. G. Stephens Jrnl. 9 Aug. in B. Bennett Cross Currents (1981) ii. 59 A little trouble today with a client, Mrs. G.M.V. Kearney, ‘The Rosiery’, Orange.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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