单词 | box hedge |
释义 | > as lemmasbox hedge b. As a modifier, with the sense ‘of or relating to a box plant; consisting of box plants’, as in box hedge, box leaf, etc. ΚΠ a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 35 (MED) Caste Box leves a-bouyn [the gingerbread]. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxviiijv This cresant was couered with frettes and knottes made of Iue busshes, and boxe braunches, and other thynges that longest would be grene for pleasure. 1695 W. Westmacott Historia Vegetabilium Sacra 25 Box-hedges, formerly an ornament in Gentlemens Gardens, are quite laid aside, to give way to more exotick and rare Trees. 1829 C. McIntosh Pract. Gardener II. 842 Against the side of this trench, which should be rather sloping, the box-plants are placed. 1907 Indoors & Out Apr. 34/1 A small shrub with smooth evergreen leaves a little larger than the Box leaves but similar in shape. 1984 House & Garden Feb. 147/2 A rose garden with clipped English box topiary of birds and animals. 2008 U. McGovern Lost Crafts (2009) 220 In 17th-century France, tightly clipped box hedges were planted in increasingly complex patterns to create formal beds called parterres. < as lemmas |
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