parkishadj.
/ˈpɑːkɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈpɑrkɪʃ/ Resembling a park; characteristic of a park. Also in parkish-looking adj.
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1787 J. Byng Diary 6 Aug. in Torrington Diaries (1934) I. 298 A domain of parkish ground, cultivated from barreness to rich fertility.
1796 W. H. Marshall Planting I. 406 The deer park may be enlarged with advantage,—by admitting the truly parkish passage between the present lodge and the kitchen garden.
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. vii. 173 A rage to render their place Parkish, as was at one time the prevailing phrase.
1838 Fraser's Mag. 18 148 A parkish-looking sort of pleasure-ground.
1901 H. James in Scribner's Mag. (1993) Jan. 49/2 The old vague girdle [of walls] is lost to-day in the fields where the sheep browse and in the parkish acres where the great trees cluster.
1985 New Yorker 14 Oct. 703/1 The place where we stopped had a parkish little name that I've forgotten, and there were parkish things there.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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