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kitchen-garden
1. A garden in which fruit and vegetables for the table are grown. Also attrib.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Iardin à herbes & arbres, a kitchin garden. 1629Parkinson Paradisus Terrestr. title-p., With a Kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes, & fruites for meate or sause. 1793Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) V. 45 Dutch Turneps, sowed on beds in my Kitchen garden. 1884J. Hatton in Harper's Mag. July 234/2 There is a kitchen-garden with..asparagus beds and potato-patches.
attrib.1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 193 Kitchen-Garden Herbs may now be planted as Parsley, Spinage, Onions, Leeks. 1712J. James tr. Le Blond's Gardening 3 A Garden..fill'd with Kitchen-Garden Stuff.
2. A kindergarten in which house-work, esp. kitchen-work, is taught. U.S. local.
1893in Barrows' Parlt. Relig. II. 1483 Kindergartens, kitchengartens, and nightschools..are among the methods employed.
Hence kitchen-ˈgardener, -ˈgardening.
1766Entick London IV. 191 The upper part is occupied as a warehouse by fruiterers and kitchen-gardeners. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 643 It was not..till the beginning of the sixteenth century that any great progress was made in the art of kitchen-gardening in our country. 1893Daily News 26 Jan. 5/5 ‘Kitchen-gardening’ is the curious name bestowed upon their labours by the ladies of an American city, who teach a class of poor children to sew, cook, dust, sweep, make beds, and wash clothes. |