Look up: parterre

1. Parterre
   Symmetry at its best. These are great ornamental garden beds that have been geometrically designed and separated by walkways. The gardens are most appreciated by an above view. One of the most famous being the gardens of Versailles.
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2. parterre
   [n] - an ornamental flower garden
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3. Parterre
   An area of low-growing plants, arranged in beds, which form a pattern (often symmetrical) in a plan view.
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4. Parterre
   formal garden laid out on a flat terrace, usually at the front of a house so that it is overlooked by the principle rooms on the first floor (parterre = on the ground). The intricate designs are usually picked out using low growing clipped shrubs, but some were devoid of plant material, the...
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5. Parterre
   Par·terre' noun [ French, from par on, by (L. per )+ terre earth, ground, Latin terra . See Terrace .] 1. (Hort.) An ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultiva...
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6. parterre
   1. <botany> An ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on. ... 2. The pit of a theater; the parquet. ... Origin: F, fr. Par on, by (L. Per)+terre earth, ground, L. Terra. See Terrace. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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7. Parterre
   • (n.) The pit of a theater; the parquet. • (n.) An ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on.
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8. parterre
   the division of garden beds in such a way that the pattern is itself an ornament. It is a sophisticated development of the knot garden, a medieval ... [1 related articles]
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9. parterre
   parterre 1. An ornamental garden laid out in a formal pattern that is usually marked out with low evergreen hedges and filled in with annual bedding plants. 2. An ornamental flower garden having the beds and paths arranged to form a pattern. Cross references of word families related directly,...
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10. Parterre
    A `parterre` is a formal garden construction on a level surface consisting of planting beds, edged in stone or tightly clipped hedging, and gravel paths arranged to form a pleasing, usually symmetrical pattern. Parterres need not have any flowers at all. French parterres originated in 15th-century G...
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