Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being a garden; the status, aspect, or appearance proper to a garden.
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- noun The
state of being agarden ; the status, respect, or appearance befitting a proper garden.
Etymologies
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From garden + -hood.
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Examples
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There was what they called a ridotto el fresco at Vauxhall, (1066) for which one paid half-a-guinea, though, except some thousand more lamps and a covered passage all round the garden, which took off from the gardenhood, there was nothing better than on a common night.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 Horace Walpole 1757
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