Definitions
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- adjective Alternative spelling of
orné .
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Examples
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It was probably the first shot fired in the movement towards the ferme ornee, when the farm-became-the-garden-became-the farm, for which the Shelby Farms plans are a startling endpoint.
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It may be presumed that nothing like it was ever seen in Abyssinia before; for the mission not merely built, but furnished it with couches, ottomans, chairs, tables, and curtains; doubtless a very showy affair, though we camot exactly comprehend the author's expression of its being furnished after the manner of an English cottage ornee.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844
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Newport, stands WESTHILL, a charming cottage-ornee in the centre of a smooth sloping lawn interspersed with magnificent elms and close shrubberies.
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C'etait une tour d'argent ornee de boucliers d'ivoire.
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You cannot imagine a more charming little cottage _ornee_ than the house is, capable of holding, apparently, an indefinite number of people, and with owners whose hospitality always prompts them to try its capabilities to the utmost.
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Most colonists leave England full of virtuous resolutions -- with bosoms glowing with the ardent love of nature; and fully persuaded that they need nothing to make them happy but a small farm, beautifully situated, with its cottage ornee, and its spreading vines, and a noble fig-tree, beneath which they are to sit in the cool of the evening, with their little ones around them.
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For difficulties in a palace she might be prepared; perhaps even for some privations in a _cottage ornee_, -- but certainly not for penury in a lodging-house!
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For difficulties in a palace she might be prepared; perhaps even for some privations in a _cottage ornee_, -- but certainly not for penury in a lodging-house!
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DURING the dread reign of the Cholera in New York, I had accepted the invitation of a relative to spend a fortnight with him in the retirement of his _cottage ornee_ on the banks of the Hudson.
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The cottage-ornee (as all middle-sized houses with verandas and French windows are now designated), which Hornblow had purchased, was, for a wonder, quite as complete as described in the particulars of sale.
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