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/fˈɔrməl gˈɑrdən/ Listen

Formal garden

noun

A garden laid out on regular lines with plants arranged in symmetrical locations or in geometrical designs.

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Etymology of 'Formal garden'

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"Formal garden" Quotes from Famous Books

... windows of the mansion. Below this, each extending along but half the length of the terraces, was a grass-garden, where it was possible to play ball-games, it being a mere expanse of sward shut in by high walls covered with flowering vines; and a formal garden, in the fashionable style. Below the grass- garden was one of similar size, all flower-beds, to supply roses, lilies, violets and other staple blossoms for his banqueting-hall, below the formal garden was one called ...

— Andivius Hedulio • Edward Lucas White

... day-time, when Arthur and her father were at the works, she would move through the high, square, stiffly-furnished rooms, or about the great formal garden, with its ordered walks and level lawns. And as with knowledge we come to love some old, stern face our childish eyes had thought forbidding, and would not have it changed, there came to her with the years ...

— All Roads Lead to Calvary • Jerome K. Jerome

Words linked to "Formal garden" : garden, Tuileries Gardens, Tuileries