Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Fit for a garden.

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

  • adjective obsolete Fit for a garden.

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  • adjective obsolete Fit for a garden.

Etymologies

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Latin hortensius, hortensis, from hortus garden; akin to English yard an enclosure.

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Examples

  • "Doubtless," Mr. Erwyn considered, "your astonishment will be extreme when you rebuke him, there above hortensial beer jugs --"

    Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes James Branch Cabell 1918

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