roseryn.
/ˈrəʊz(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈroʊzəri/ Now chiefly historical.
A portion of a garden set apart for growing roses; a rose garden. Cf. rosary n. 3a.
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rosaire?1440
rosary?1440
rose yard?c1475
rose garden1535
rosery1745
rosiery1791
rosarium1822
1745 tr. L. J. M. Columella Of Husbandry i. Pref. 10 What man has extended his study so far, as..to put in practice the culture of so many different sorts of apple-trees, and of pot-herbs, and of so many different sorts of fig-trees, so as to bestow his care upon Roseries also?
1794 E. Fitzgerald Let. 6 Feb. in G. Campbell Edward & Pamela Fitzgerald (1904) vi. 67 I am to have hyacinths, jonquils, pinks,..in little beds before the house, and in the rosery.
1831 Reg. Pennsylvania Feb. 109/1 In the Rosery are to be seen some bushes elevated from 2 to 10 feet on a single stem.
1864 S. Hibberd Rose Bk. iv. 83 Those who form their roseries by planting small plants.
1883 J. Payn Thicker than Water xiii With walled gardens, a huge rosery and..a bowling-green.
1888 Co-operative News 4 Aug. 783 The hills are crowned..by art with..fairy-like roseries.
1927 R. A. Taylor Leonardo the Florentine 123 Swans on the water of the moat..and apes in the rosery!
1992 B. Harley & J. Harley Gardener at Chatsworth i. 13 The Sixth Duke's gardener Lewis Kennedy laid out a Rosery in concentric circles.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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