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单词 garden gate
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garden gaten.

Brit. /ˌɡɑːdn ˈɡeɪt/, U.S. /ˈɡɑrd(ə)n ˌɡeɪt/
Forms: see garden n. and gate n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: garden n., gate n.1, kiss-me-at-the-garden-gate, variant of kiss-me-at-the-gate n. at kiss- comb. form
Etymology: < garden n. + gate n.1 In sense 2 short for e.g. kiss-me-at-the-garden-gate, variant of kiss-me-at-the-gate n. at kiss- comb. form .
1. A gate leading into a garden.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [noun] > garden-gate
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > opening which may be passed through > gate or gateway > of a garden
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?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 137 (MED) He smyteth on the gardyn ȝate with a clyket of syluer.
1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 22 The grete gardeyn gate.
1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. f. 57v You faile not to come in as secret maner as you can to the gardeine gate.
1602 A. Munday tr. 3rd Pt. Palmerin of Eng. lxxxix. f. 275v Then found they them selues before a Garden gate, where-into when they entred, they behelde the strangest grafts and plants.
1652 Laughing Mercury No. 28. 219 A blind Watchman that attends continually at the Garden-gate.
1731 A. Pope Epist. to Earl of Burlington 13 Turn Arcs of Triumph to a Garden-gate.
1778 J. Woodforde Diary 25 Aug. (1981) I. 231 He had got his Head between the Pales by the garden gate.
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxix. 158 A gig drove up to the garden-gate.
1885 T. Mozley Reminisc. Towns (ed. 2) II. 202 The pigs, huge masterful brutes, were forcing their way through my garden gate.
1915 St. Nicholas June 682/2 She shut the garden gate carefully and went..down the box-bordered path.
1965 J. M. Brewer Worser Days 166 I don't make love by the garden gate, For love is blind, but the neighbors ain't.
2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 June d6/5 She glanced through a garden gate and spied a bottle tree.
2. English regional. Any of several flowering plants having small pink or purple flowers, spec. (a) heartsease, Viola tricolor (now historical and rare); (b) herb Robert, Geranium robertianum (obsolete rare); (c) (in plural garden gates) the cultivated hybrid saxifrage London pride, Saxifraga x urbium (obsolete rare).Cf. earlier kiss-me-at-the-gate n. at kiss- comb. form .
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > pea flowers > violet and allied flowers > allied flowers
pansyc1450
heartsease1530
pansy flower1530
three (also two) faces under (or in) a (or one) hood1548
bulbous violet1578
love-in-idleness1578
sweet violet1578
pensea1592
cull-me-to-you1597
dog's tooth violet1597
dog violet1597
kiss-me-ere-I-rise1597
live in idleness1597
wild violet1597
yellow violet1597
love-and-idle1630
love-in-idle1664
trinity1699
fancy1712
wood violet1713
marsh violet1753
tree violet1753
kiss-me-at-the-gate1787
bird's-foot violet1802
Parma violet1812
Johnny-jump-up1827
stepmother1828
Neapolitan violet1830
garden gate1842
butterfly pea1848
kissa1852
pinkany-John1854
viola1871
kiss-me1877
pink-eyed John1877
face and hood1886
roosterhead1894
trout-lily1909
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > saxifrage flowers
prattling parnel1597
pride of London1629
prince's feather1629
London pride1697
none-so-pretty1731
sanicle1760
heuchera1772
nancy-pretty1825
Bergenia1838
St. Patrick's cabbage1851
spider plant1852
strawberry geranium1880
garden gate1881
megasea1886
maiden's wreath1893
mother of thousands1910
1842 Essex Standard 30 Sept. Take, again, that flower, rich in many names—the viola tricolor, pansy, heart's-ease, love in idleness, garden-gate.
1880 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Garden Gate. (1) Viola tricolor, L.—One of the many peculiar names of the pansy; most probably a contraction of one of the longer names, such as ‘Kiss-behind-the-Garden-Gate;’.. (2) Geranium Robertianum, L.
1881 Rep. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 13 207 ‘What do you call that flower?’ I enquired of a woman at Bovey Tracey..as I pointed to a clump of Saxifrage, the flower elsewhere known as London Pride... ‘We call it Garden-gates,’ was her reply.
1920 W. E. Brenchley Weeds of Farm Land xiii. 226 Viola tricolor..garden gate.
1960 A. O. D. Claxton Suffolk Dial. (ed. 2) Garden gate, the heartsease, small wild viola (Viola Tricolor).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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