单词 | rosiery |
释义 | rosieryn. Now rare. A rose garden; = rosery n.In quot. 1897 as a proper name. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun] > flower-garden > rose garden 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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