topiary

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When a number of such trees are growing together, the place is called a topiary, and lately people who can afford the money have been contriving topiaries in some parts of their grounds.

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  1. adjective Of or characterized by the clipping or trimming of live shrubs or trees into decorative shapes, as of animals.
  2. noun Topiary work or art.
  3. noun A topiary garden.

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  • She had left word for him to meet her there Footprints led him through the gardens and topiary, past the sunken garden with its pool lying silvery and quiescent beneath the gray skies. —  Asimov's SF, June2006
  • Hawk and Pidge had taken a seat on a bench outside the Polo shop, surrounded by a small forest of potted topiary, aromas of flowers and coffee wafting all around them. —  7th Heaven by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
  • The serene arrangement of raked white sand, upright stones, and elegantly clipped topiary which filled an entire corner of the office rested the eyes and soothed the soul It was Kit's salvation on paperwork days. —  Time Scout
  • At least fifty guests assembled on a spacious terrace adjacent to colourfully lit gardens with manicured flower beds, topiary, decorative paths and seats placed at strategic intervals. —  Helen Bianchin - The Wedding Ultimatum
  • Across a small pond, we notice a frightening display of landscape topiary: "HE IS RISEN" carved into hedges, big enough to be seen by passing airplanes. —  Vonnegut's Asshole
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  1. Latin topiārius, from topia, ornamental gardening, from Greek topia, pl. of topion, field, diminutive of topos, place.

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  1. from Latin topiarius, an ornamental or landscape gardener, from topia, landscape-gardening: see topia.
 

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