parterre

How To Use parterre In A Sentence

• They reached a spot where a mulberry tree spread its branches over the parterre; he drew her into their shade. ON A WILD NIGHT
• The Stuarts preferred the watery art of grottoes and fountains and canals, of elaborate parterres and radiating avenues - vividly shown in bird's eye views of Knyp, Knyff and Badeslade.
• Smaller gardens may benefit from the use of slow-growing box hedging which was used in formal gardens of old to create geometric patterns, called parterres.
• Two movable towers and movable partition walls comprise the parterre and define the stage opening.
• In the formal gardens, the grandest expanse of all running the full length of the house is the Italian garden, laid out as a geometric parterre with herbaceous plants.
• I had never heard the remark made by any one in my life, except by one; and who that was will probably come out in this chapter; so that being pretty much unprepossessed, there must have been grounds for what struck me the moment I cast my eyes over the parterre, — and that was, the unaccountable sport of Nature in forming such numbers of dwarfs. — A sentimental journey through France and Italy
• I had never heard the remark made by any one in my life, except by one; and who that was will probably come out in this chapter; so that being pretty much unprepossessed, there must have been grounds for what struck me the moment I cast my eyes over the parterre, - and that was, the unaccountable sport of Nature in forming such numbers of dwarfs. A Sentimental Journey
• The queen's bedchamber sits daintily festooned with floral pinks and lilacs in a combination with gold, overlooking the south parterre.
• He intended it to be filled with roses and placed within a parterre of small flowers in radial beds edged by dwarf boxwood.
• But the word parterre, even the idea of a parterre, fit. Archive 2008-08-01