ornee

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.

Agro Park

Newport, stands WESTHILL, a charming cottage-ornee in the centre of a smooth sloping lawn interspersed with magnificent elms and close shrubberies.

Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight The Expeditious Traveller's Index to Its Prominent Beauties & Objects of Interest. Compiled Especially with Reference to Those Numerous Visitors Who Can Spare but Two or Three Days to Make the Tour of the Island.

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

C'etait une tour d'argent ornee de boucliers d'ivoire.

Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde

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.

Station Life in New Zealand

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.

The Bushman — Life in a New Country

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!

Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete

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.

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5

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.

The King's Own

I recognised the cottage _ornee_, the parapet wall, even the spot where we lay, and perceived that several bricks were detached and had fallen into the river.

Jacob Faithful