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† ˈgardenage Obs.
Also 7 gardinage.
[f. garden n. + -age. Cf. F. jardinage.]
1. The practice or employment of cultivating a garden; horticulture.
1601Holland Pliny II. 12 There was no one thing..lesse subiect to the will and pleasure of Fortune and Casualtie, than gardenage. Ibid. II. 28, I must not overpasse the gardinage to them belonging. 1693Evelyn De la Quint. Compl. Gard. I. 89 Persons of Quality that divertise themselves there in Gardenage.
2. The produce of a garden; garden-stuff.
1733J. Tull Horse-hoing Husb. v. 19 The eating unwholesom Gardenage. 1816J. Man Hist. Reading 147 This street was appropriated to the sale of fish and gardenage. |