gardeneressn.
/ɡɑːdn̩əˈrɛs/, /ɡɑːdnəˈrɛs/, U.S. /ˈɡɑrd(ə)nərəs/ A female gardener. Also: †a gardener's wife (obsolete).
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a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) ii. ii. 182 The fair Gardneresse [Fr. iardiniere], this while, held my arme.
1798 Ld. Harcourt Let. 27 Aug. in Garden Hist. 18 (1990) 142 My Gardeneress says that the failure of your plants is owing to improper management.
1827 T. Carlyle tr. J. P. F. Richter in German Romance III. 270 We maintain popular conversation that so the parsoness and the gardeneress [Ger. Kunstgärtnerin] may be able to take share in it.
1896 Daily Tel. 23 Jan. 5/3 The first gardeneress Eve.
1904 Temple Bar Aug. 204 The stout good-humoured gardeneress.
1946 Illustr. London News 19 Jan. 58/1 Annotated in pencil by some bygone gardener or gardeneress.
2012 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 29 Oct. 23 (heading) The Gardeneress.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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