| 单词 | landscape-gardening |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslandscape-gardening landscape-gardening n. the art of laying out grounds so as to produce the effect of natural scenery. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > [noun] > types of gardening curtilagec1430 kitchen gardening?1700 landscape-gardeninga1763 picturesque gardeninga1763 window gardening1801 landscape architecture1840 rock gardening1840 market gardening1852 water gardening1870 wild gardening1870 olericulture1886 market work1887 trucking1897 tub-gardening1904 landscaping1930 greenswardsmanship1936 godwottery1937 sand gardening1960 xeriscaping1987 a1763 W. Shenstone Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) II. 125 Gardening may be divided into three species—kitchen-gardening—parterre gardening—and landskip, or picturesque-gardening: which latter..consists in pleasing the imagination by scenes of grandeur, beauty, or variety. 1788 H. Repton in D. Stroud Humphry Repton (1962) ii. 37 I mean in this place to keep an account of the time employed and expenses incurr'd in this service at the same rate as if employ'd in my profession of Landscape Gardening. 1805 H. Repton (title) Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. 1856 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Flower Garden 5 A park in the Brownean style of landscape-gardening. 1938 New Statesman 8 Jan. 56/2 In Andrew Young there are touches of a lesser, a more landscape-gardening Frost. 1946 R. Macaulay They went to Portugal 137 Landscape gardening always showed him [sc. William Beckford] at his most likeable. 1975 Garden Hist. III. ii. 1 Mavis Batey's essay on Goldsmith, ‘An Indictment of Landscape Gardening’, is the clearest and best exposition we have had of that frequent eighteenth-century occurrence, the destruction of villages and hamlets to further the creation of landscape gardens. < as lemmas |
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