单词 | gardenesque |
释义 | gardenesquen.adj. A. n. Chiefly with the. A style of garden design introduced by John Loudon (1783–1843), which put emphasis on the formal or artistic (as opposed to naturalistic) display of plants. Cf. picturesque gardening n. at picturesque adj. and n. Compounds. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun] > other types of garden grounda1500 knot-garden1519 back-garden1535 summer garden1589 spring garden1612 spring gardena1625 water gardena1626 walled gardena1631 wildernessa1644 window garden1649 botanic garden1662 Hanging Gardens1705 winter garden1736 cottage garden1765 Vauxhall1770 English garden1771 wall garden1780 chinampa1787 moat garden1826 gardenesque1832 sunk garden1835 roof garden1844 weedery1847 wild garden1852 rootery1855 beer-garden1863 Japanese garden1863 bog-garden1883 Italian garden1883 community garden1884 sink garden1894 trough garden1935 sand garden1936 Zen garden1937 hydroponicum1938 tub garden1974 rain garden1994 1832 J. C. Loudon in Gardener's Mag. 8 Pref. p. iv That species of beauty in garden scenery which we have elsewhere..shown might be appropiately [sic] denominated the gardenesque. 1839 J. C. Loudon Repton's Landsc. Garden (1840) Introd. 8 This change has given rise to a school which we call the Gardenesque; the characteristic feature of which is the display of the beauty of trees, and other plants, individually. 1896 Punch 29 Aug. 102/2 No, by heavens! let the gardenesque perish Ere ever I axe that familiar old thorn! 1915 W. Miller Prairie Spirit Landscape Gardening 35/3 Naturalistic surroundings are in better taste than the gardenesque. 1979 C. Thacker Hist. Gardens xv. 228 The sublime and the ‘picturesque’, cherished for half a century, are exchanged for the ‘gardenesque’. 2005 C. Grove H. Shaw's Victorian Landscapes 127 Shaw's choice of the gardenesque seems extravagant through the lens of history. B. adj. Laid out in or conforming to the formal or artistic style of garden design introduced by John Loudon; designating this style. Later also more generally: characteristic of or resembling a garden, as opposed to a natural setting; formal. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [adjective] hortensial1655 hortensian1657 hortulan1666 hortulanary1715 gardenly1775 gardenesque1833 1833 Gardener's Mag. Feb. 9 More exotics are wanted to render the dell sufficiently gardenesque. 1881 Gardeners' Chron. No. 417. 816 An attempt to give a sort of gardenesque character to a slope within view of the Castle by planting dwarf hardy shrubs in a formal arrangement of beds. 1928 Garden & Home Builder Aug. 559/1 (caption) A gardenesque area (gay with herbaceous plants in season) that has entry and egress by four walks. 1982 T. H. Everett N.Y. Bot. Garden Illustr. Encycl. Hort. X. 3552/1 A wild garden..may include exotic (foreign) species not too gardenesque in appearance. 2009 Victorian Mar. 13/1 In 1834, the Sheffield Botanical and Horticultural Society appointed Robert Marnock as their first curator, who laid out the Gardens in the highly fashionable gardenesque style. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1832 |
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