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Definition of grotto in English: grottonounPlural grottoes, Plural grottos ˈɡrɒtəʊˈɡrɑdoʊ 1A small picturesque cave, especially an artificial one in a park or garden. Example sentencesExamples - The garden also features a gazebo, garden seats and grottoes.
- And why should we live in boring, utilitarian spaces when we could live in grottoes and crooked caverns?
- Where they did survive, many great eighteenth-century grottoes gradually slid into ruin, like the parks in which they stood or the houses they once served.
- A grandad from Trowbridge has transformed his garden into a magical grotto for children to enjoy.
- A gazebo, garden seats, the grottoes and the waterside plantings and eventually the bedding schemes will convey the exuberance of the Victorian garden - to be again enjoyed in Tramore.
- You can believe it if you want as you wander through gilt throne rooms and baroque bedrooms, romantic grottoes and misty gardens.
- Such garden grottos first became popular in Italy before spreading to England in the Tudor period.
- The present grotto commemorating Our Lady's apparitions at Lourdes will be moved to another location in the garden.
- At 11 am there will be a May procession to bless the new grotto to Our Lady in the garden in Spring Gardens.
- Residents in the area have been pushing for the building of a grotto in the green area of the park and the building of a wall around the park over the last 12 months.
- In gardening, designers turned their backs on Italianate fountains and grottoes and on the stiff French parterres, long vistas and avenues beloved of Stuart kings.
- In underwater grottoes, hollowed out of the island's jagged rock-face, we discover swarms of good-sized lobster and shrimp.
- Here are about 1200 caves, some of them with lakes and rivers; subterranean grottos are suitable for diving.
- Usually a little grotto is prepared for the Pope's tomb.
- The railings around the grotto were erected at a later date.
- In the Renaissance garden, elemental forces of nature were represented by fountains, statuary, and artificial grottoes.
- If scuba diving appeals, you'll find the Adriatic sea floor is littered with wrecks where exotic fish swim in coral reefs and colourful underwater gardens and grottoes.
- In addition to the gardens, there were two grottos with hidden, artificial lighting, that sheltered the new friendship, if not love, flourishing between David and Carrie.
- There Wright filled the grounds with follies, grottoes, and garden buildings in the rustic, Gothic, and Palladian styles.
- Towards the end of the eighteenth century a picturesque rock landscape with a cascade, grottoes and a hermit's cave was constructed.
Synonyms cave, cavern, cavity, hollow, recess, alcove tunnel, pothole, underground chamber - 1.1 An indoor structure resembling a cave.
visits to Father Christmas's grotto Example sentencesExamples - During the week, youngsters tried their hand at pumpkin carving and visited a haunted house grotto.
- "Children look forward to visiting a Grotto for a little present and to meet Father Christmas.
- More than 30,000 children and adults had visited his grotto the year before.
- This palace had underground rooms or grottoes with wall paintings depicting elaborately swirled and bizarre floral and figural motifs.
- Rolling over to find sweet relief from his side, he stared blankly at the ceiling, a grubby grotto of sepia walls.
Origin Early 17th century: from Italian grotta, via Latin from Greek kruptē (see crypt). Rhymes blotto, Giotto, lotto, motto, Otto, risotto, Watteau Definition of grotto in US English: grottonounˈɡrɑdoʊˈɡrädō 1A small picturesque cave, especially an artificial one in a park or garden. Example sentencesExamples - Residents in the area have been pushing for the building of a grotto in the green area of the park and the building of a wall around the park over the last 12 months.
- A gazebo, garden seats, the grottoes and the waterside plantings and eventually the bedding schemes will convey the exuberance of the Victorian garden - to be again enjoyed in Tramore.
- If scuba diving appeals, you'll find the Adriatic sea floor is littered with wrecks where exotic fish swim in coral reefs and colourful underwater gardens and grottoes.
- In the Renaissance garden, elemental forces of nature were represented by fountains, statuary, and artificial grottoes.
- A grandad from Trowbridge has transformed his garden into a magical grotto for children to enjoy.
- Here are about 1200 caves, some of them with lakes and rivers; subterranean grottos are suitable for diving.
- The railings around the grotto were erected at a later date.
- Such garden grottos first became popular in Italy before spreading to England in the Tudor period.
- Towards the end of the eighteenth century a picturesque rock landscape with a cascade, grottoes and a hermit's cave was constructed.
- There Wright filled the grounds with follies, grottoes, and garden buildings in the rustic, Gothic, and Palladian styles.
- The present grotto commemorating Our Lady's apparitions at Lourdes will be moved to another location in the garden.
- In addition to the gardens, there were two grottos with hidden, artificial lighting, that sheltered the new friendship, if not love, flourishing between David and Carrie.
- Usually a little grotto is prepared for the Pope's tomb.
- In underwater grottoes, hollowed out of the island's jagged rock-face, we discover swarms of good-sized lobster and shrimp.
- At 11 am there will be a May procession to bless the new grotto to Our Lady in the garden in Spring Gardens.
- Where they did survive, many great eighteenth-century grottoes gradually slid into ruin, like the parks in which they stood or the houses they once served.
- The garden also features a gazebo, garden seats and grottoes.
- You can believe it if you want as you wander through gilt throne rooms and baroque bedrooms, romantic grottoes and misty gardens.
- In gardening, designers turned their backs on Italianate fountains and grottoes and on the stiff French parterres, long vistas and avenues beloved of Stuart kings.
- And why should we live in boring, utilitarian spaces when we could live in grottoes and crooked caverns?
Synonyms cave, cavern, cavity, hollow, recess, alcove - 1.1 An indoor structure resembling a cave.
visits to Father Christmas's grotto Example sentencesExamples - More than 30,000 children and adults had visited his grotto the year before.
- During the week, youngsters tried their hand at pumpkin carving and visited a haunted house grotto.
- Rolling over to find sweet relief from his side, he stared blankly at the ceiling, a grubby grotto of sepia walls.
- "Children look forward to visiting a Grotto for a little present and to meet Father Christmas.
- This palace had underground rooms or grottoes with wall paintings depicting elaborately swirled and bizarre floral and figural motifs.
Origin Early 17th century: from Italian grotta, via Latin from Greek kruptē (see crypt). |