gardenry
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An area that is cultivated into gardens.
Example Sentences
- "But 2 or 3 lay brothers who understood gardenry had made their garden (which is very large) one of the noblest things one could see."
- "That we make him take Plantations of Gardens for Plantations of Kirks, is natural enough for a Man who underſtands nothing but Gardenry, and frequently uſes to miſtake."
- "The gardens have very few flowers, and the sound of the rake nowadays is seldom heard on the gravel; but there are plenty of fine trees—some really stupendous poplars, untrimmed and spreading abroad like oaks, chestnuts which would make a figure in Italy, beeches which would be called “rather good” in England; plenty of nooks and bowers and densely woven arcades, triumphs of old-fashioned gardenry; and a large dull-bosomed pond into which the unadorned castle-walls peep from above the trees."
- "The Gentle Art of Gardenry / This has been a year to discourage the most eager gardener; a mild, soft winter breaking into an early spring, cold and snow in May and drought and heat all through the summer."
- "In 1873, John Hamilton, Master of the Glasgow Olive Lodge, defined its spiritual purpose: “Gardenery may be defined as the art of disposing the earth in such a manner as to produce whatever vegetables and fruits we desire, in large quantities and the greatest perfection of which their natures are capable.[…]” […] The secret of gardenry was revealed only to Adam, not Eve, as in this questioning of the postulant: “What did you come here upon?” “My mother, Earth.” “What are you?” “A man.” “How do you know yourself to be a man?” “By having that revealed to me which was never revealed to woman.” The candidate is then shown the emblems of Free Gardenry; the square, the compass, and the grafting knife, “the simplest tool of gardening,” and the initiate is exhorted to “prune the vices and propagate the virtues by cuttings.”"
- "Rand, in Astronist Architecture, as part of gardenry, is any border, or margin that separates a pathway from a lawn, or flowerbed, especially one that features ornamental designs."
Etymology
From garden + -ry.