How To Use Parterre In A Sentence
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The spot where once the fine parterre overlooked the river, and the bold stoccade enclosed the neat and substantial fort, is now overgrown with weeds and bushes, and can scarce be distinguished from the primeval forest which surrounds it on every side.
Townsend Chapter 10
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But then came the Industrial Revolution and mass production, and parterres, allées and garden ornaments again were status symbols.
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In fact, of the twenty rose-trees which formed the parterre, not one bore the mark of the slug, nor were there evidences anywhere of the clustering aphis which is so destructive to plants growing in a damp soil.
The Count of Monte Cristo
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The sides of the bowl are defined with pleached linden trees and parterres of golden privet, santolina, althernanthera, Korean boxwood and red-leaf Japanese barberry with begonias, lantanas, fucshia and cone-shaped yew topiary.
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The whole place seemed one huge parterre of bloomery; even traders set bouquets in every shop and stall, and the scented air was heavy with perfume.
Arabian nights. English
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Threequarter-acre garden with terraces, roses, yew hedges, box parterres, geraniums, pelargoniums and double herbaceous borders leading to a meadow planted with eucalyptus.
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In addition there was a parterre of plants chosen for their scent: myrtles, jasmine, roses and lilacs, which were replaced when they began to fade.
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Smokey déguisé en brin d'herbe ou en fleur de parterre .....
Vivace - French Word-A-Day
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The few ornamental gardens in these early years that are known to historians through documents were generally based on French seventeenth and eighteenth-century garden designs, the most prominent feature being the parterre.
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The only defect of it is an unreal scheme of the parterre done by ashlaring.
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There was a tennis court hidden in the old kitchen garden, a swimming pool beside the parterre, a private terrace outside the room of the spinning Carmen for breakfast in the sun.
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Richardson & Wrench The property has dry-stone walls, a vegetable garden, citrus orchard and parterre, or ornamental garden shown with peony trees and roses.
Australian Country Estate
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It contains many rare plants and shrubs, herbaceous border, parterre, old-fashioned flowers and shrub borders, and fruit and vegetables.
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In gardening, designers turned their backs on Italianate fountains and grottoes and on the stiff French parterres, long vistas and avenues beloved of Stuart kings.
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‘There is more fun at Corke Lodge’ writes Jane Powers, The Irish Times, where ‘the "ancient garden" of box parterres is punctuated by melancholy gothic follies, and emerges eerily from the dense boskage of evergreen oaks, myrtles, and a writhing cork oak tree with deeply corrugated bark.’
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I HAD never heard the remark made by any one in my life, except by one; and who that was will probably come out in this chapter; so that being pretty much unprepossessed, there must have been grounds for what struck me the moment I cast my eyes over the parterreand that was the unaccountable sport of nature in forming such numbers of dwarfs.
37. The Dwarf. Paris
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They raise roughly 4,500 hardy and half-hardy annual bedding plants each year from seed for containers and various areas of the garden including the box parterre.
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There was an Italian grapevine roof, a French parterre of boxwood, lobelia, and shiny black coal, and oak columns recently dredged from Boston Harbor garlanded with a ship's hawser and clematis.
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I'll never forget its shady walks and ancient trees, its soft green lawns and parterres bursting flowers.
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He intended it to be filled with roses and placed within a parterre of small flowers in radial beds edged by dwarf boxwood.
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When it has paid its tribute to the royal pile, and visited its gardens and parterres, it flows down the long avenue leading to the city, tinkling in rills, gushing in fountains, and maintaining a perpetual verdure in those groves that embower and beautify the whole hill of the Alhambra.
The Alhambra
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In addition there was a parterre of plants chosen for their scent: myrtles, jasmine, roses and lilacs, which were replaced when they began to fade.
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The most striking feature of my own shady front garden is a classic parterre of low box hedging, infilled with Portland stone gravel and shade-tolerant double-white busy Lizzies.
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On again ascending, you catch a fine view of Box Hill, and the amphitheatrical range of opposite hills, with one of the most magnificent _parterres_ in nature.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 337, October 25, 1828
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It is used a lot and called king of parterre because of the large, colorful flower and long bloom duration.
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From the middle of the parterre is a descent by many steps flying on each side of a grotto that lies between them (covered with lead and flat) into the lower garden, which is all fruit trees ranged about the several quarters of a wilderness, which is very shady; the walks here are all green, the grotto embellished with figures of shell rock work, fountains, and water works.
Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
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My dear Fleda! if my eyes cannot rest upon that development of elegance, the parterre is become a wilderness to me!
Queechy
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But then came the Industrial Revolution and mass production, and parterres, allées and garden ornaments again were status symbols.
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She walked on a few steps, and appraised the cool precision of the orderly parterre with its mixed beds of lavender, rosemary and sage.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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Yet men smote and spat on them (Isa 50: 6). bed -- full, like the raised surface of the garden bed; fragrant with ointments, as beds with aromatic plants (literally, "balsam"). sweet flowers -- rather, "terraces of aromatic herbs" -- "high-raised parterres of sweet plants," in parallelism to "bed," which comes from a
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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I had never heard the remark made by any one in my life, except by one; and who that was will probably come out in this chapter; so that being pretty much unprepossessed, there must have been grounds for what struck me the moment I cast my eyes over the parterre, -- and that was, the unaccountable sport of Nature in forming such numbers of dwarfs.
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
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The lawns are mown, the box hedge parterres are neatly clipped and the central fountain plays gently in the sunshine.
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Situated at the edge of Loch Dunvegan, the garden is extensive with a parterre, and woodland areas planted with Himalayan blue poppies and the Himalayan lily Cardiocrinum.
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The Stuarts preferred the watery art of grottoes and fountains and canals, of elaborate parterres and radiating avenues - vividly shown in bird's eye views of Knyp, Knyff and Badeslade.
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Smaller gardens may benefit from the use of slow-growing box hedging which was used in formal gardens of old to create geometric patterns, called parterres.
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Two movable towers and movable partition walls comprise the parterre and define the stage opening.
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In the formal gardens, the grandest expanse of all running the full length of the house is the Italian garden, laid out as a geometric parterre with herbaceous plants.
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I had never heard the remark made by any one in my life, except by one; and who that was will probably come out in this chapter; so that being pretty much unprepossessed, there must have been grounds for what struck me the moment I cast my eyes over the parterre, — and that was, the unaccountable sport of Nature in forming such numbers of dwarfs. —
A sentimental journey through France and Italy
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I had never heard the remark made by any one in my life, except by one; and who that was will probably come out in this chapter; so that being pretty much unprepossessed, there must have been grounds for what struck me the moment I cast my eyes over the parterre, - and that was, the unaccountable sport of Nature in forming such numbers of dwarfs.
A Sentimental Journey
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The queen's bedchamber sits daintily festooned with floral pinks and lilacs in a combination with gold, overlooking the south parterre.
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He intended it to be filled with roses and placed within a parterre of small flowers in radial beds edged by dwarf boxwood.
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But the word parterre, even the idea of a parterre, fit.
Archive 2008-08-01
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In the centre of the parterre is a figure with a trident, which represents the Morava, the national river of Servia, and is in reality a Roman statue found near
Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844.
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The upper part of the garden is taken up with a striking parterre, in which a floral arch surrounds a young monkey-puzzle tree, and neat gravel paths are surrounded by beds of flowers.
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It includes a contemporary parterre planted with 16 abstract topiary shapes.
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Houses of this era often had formal parterres with coloured and patterned bedding on the garden side of the house, slipping into picturesque prospects beyond the terrace.
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Plate 37 shows a Persian garden carpet of a type offering a bird's eye view of an idyllic lay out thought to represent the garden of heaven, described in the Koran, with its watercourses, trees and shrubs, and flowering parterres.
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Lying to the north of the mansion and set among newly planted wild meadows, the seed bank adds to the attractions with a winter garden and parterre open to the public.
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They reached a spot where a mulberry tree spread its branches over the parterre; he drew her into their shade.
ON A WILD NIGHT
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The _parterre_, the Grand Canal and the two avenues of majestic trees were due to the conception of Le Notre, and their effect, as set off by the alleyed forest background and the pillars of the aqueduct of Louis
Royal Palaces and Parks of France
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In front of the arbor was a parterre of rounded box-bushes edging beds where disorderly roses hung in clusters of pink and purple and apricot-color.
Three Soldiers
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She has made her own additions, which include a new herb garden by the house, in a box parterre, and a dry gravel garden enclosed by a copper beech hedge on the site of the old swimming pool.
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On the way home, walked through International Trade Center, I took the pictures about the parterre and the little flowers in it!
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The grids of parterres that previously acted as the setting for symbolic episodes now become the decorative focus themselves, developing in ever more complex ways and frequently influenced by textile design.
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There are no richer parterres to my eyes than the dense beds of dwarf andromeda (Cassandra calyculate) which cover these tender places on the earths surface.
Walking
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Her garden, with formal parterres and patterns, was designed to be viewed from above.
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In the spring the mead through which we were passing was a natural parterre, where in the midst of the lively vernal green, bloomed the oxlip, the white and blue violet, the yellow-cup dotted with jet, and many another fragile and aromatic member of the floral sisterhood.
Woman on the American Frontier
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Meanwhile, when the eunuchs went in to the Princess at break of day, she bade open the private wicket leading from the palace to the parterres and donned a royal robe, embroidered with pearls and jewels and gems, over a shift of fine silk purfled with rubies.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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They raise roughly 4,500 hardy and half-hardy annual bedding plants each year from seed for containers and various areas of the garden including the box parterre.
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I'll never forget its shady walks and ancient trees, its soft green lawns and parterres bursting flowers.
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But during those twenty years Nature had made herself a garden of flowers, a blooming "parterre" for her own enjoyment, just as an artist gives himself the delight of painting a picture for his own happiness.
Sons of the Soil
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(Smokey disguised as a blade of grass) ou en fleur de parterre .....
Vivace - French Word-A-Day
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The queen's bedchamber sits daintily festooned with floral pinks and lilacs in a combination with gold, overlooking the south parterre.
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Below, the Bath slumbered darkly in the shadow of its ancient steps and its encircling belt of fir-trees; and beyond the flower-gardens, half-an-acre of pineries, and vineries, and orchard-houses glittered in a dazzling parterre of glass-roofs and white paint.
Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance
