Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A place where roses grow; a nursery of rose-bushes; a rosary.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A place where roses are cultivated; a nursery of roses. See rosary, 1.

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  • noun A place where roses are cultivated; a nursery of roses.

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Examples

  • The rosery was a pleasant rectangle framed in a sort of rustic bower which in the summer was covered with superb roses of every hue and variety.

    The Yellow Streak Valentine Williams 1914

  • Weightily she is informed that "her ladyship" has tea served sometimes in that part of the garden which is called the rosery, sometimes on the front lawn, and the butler adds the cryptic information, "according as to whether her ladyship desires to see visitors or not."

    The End of Her Honeymoon Marie Belloc Lowndes 1907

  • In a second "rosery" we were fairly smothered in sweets.

    Harper's Young People, March 23, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

  • "You'll admire the 'rosery' more than this," said the gardener, opening another door, and standing aside.

    Harper's Young People, March 23, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

  • Seest not that rosery where Rose a-flowering displays

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Seest not that rosery where Rose a flowering displays, viii.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Through the flower and fruit garden, against whose high outer walls peach trees and nectarines were trained to the sun, through the stables, the vinery, the mushroom house, the asparagus beds, the rosery, the summer-house, he conducted her — even into the kitchen garden to see the tiny green peas which Holly loved to scoop out of their pods with her finger, and lick up from the palm of her little brown hand.

    Indian Summer of a Forsyte 2004

  • While we were waiting, Sergeant Cuff looked through the evergreen arch on our left, spied out our rosery, and walked straight in, with the first appearance of anything like interest that he had shown yet.

    The Moonstone 2003

  • Sergeant Cuff looked at Mr. Seegrave, as he had looked at the gravel walks in the rosery, and gave us, in his melancholy way, the first taste of his quality which we had had yet.

    The Moonstone 2003

  • In a rosery of Fetter lane of Gerard, herbalist, he walks, greyedauburn.

    Ulysses 2003

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