Shrubbery
['ʃrʌb(ə)rɪ] or ['ʃrʌbəri]
Definition
(noun.) a collection of shrubs growing together.
(noun.) an area where a number of shrubs are planted.
Edited by Glenn--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A collection of shrubs.
(n.) A place where shrubs are planted.
Checker: Mandy
Examples
- I am going now to take a turn in the shrubbery, since the air is milder. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- We looked again, and saw, through the arbor, an endless stretch of garden, and shrubbery, and grassy lawn. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But soon she checked herself, dried her eyes, and went out at the glass door into the shrubbery. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- If he can't, we shall have another chance of catching them in the shrubbery, before many more nights are over our heads. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- My intention was certainly to have taken a turn in the shrubbery. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Without disturbing anybody, Samuel and I got a couple of guns, and went all round the house and through the shrubbery. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It would have made no difference to you, I suppose, whether you had walked in the shrubbery or gone to my house. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Drifting towards the shrubbery, some time later, there I met Mr. Franklin. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- What took Rosanna into the shrubbery walk? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- One likes to get out into a shrubbery in fine weather. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- This notion had barely struck me--when who should appear at the end of the shrubbery walk but Rosanna Spearman in her own proper person! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- For the sake of your better understanding of what is now to come, I may add to this, that the shrubbery path was Mr. Franklin's favourite walk. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- She had once more attempted to meet me in the shrubbery walk, and she had found me there in company with Betteredge and Sergeant Cuff. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- There she was, at any rate, looking as if she had never heard of such a place as the shrubbery in her life. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- From the shrubbery, they could easily make their way, over our fence into the road. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- They were all three walking about together for an hour or twofirst round the shrubberies of Hartfield, and afterwards in Highbury. Jane Austen. Emma.
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