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  • noun Plural form of parterre.

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Examples

  • All this seemed starkly geometric against the granite slopes of the Anti-Atlas Mountains, but roses growing in parterres in front of the tomb softened the impression.

    Going Coastal 2006

  • All this seemed starkly geometric against the granite slopes of the Anti-Atlas Mountains, but roses growing in parterres in front of the tomb softened the impression.

    Going Coastal 2006

  • The land around the parterres was the green of a painstakingly cultivated lawn.

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

  • The land around the parterres was the green of a painstakingly cultivated lawn.

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

  • The land around the parterres was the green of a painstakingly cultivated lawn.

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

  • The gardens stretched in a wild riot of green, though the bones of a once well-ordered series of parterres and pathways, avenues and orchards, existed still.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • Here's an aerial view of one of the quilt-square parterres in the Heartland Harvest Garden, this one inspired by the famous potager at Villandry.

    The Ever-Ripening Year « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2009

  • The gardens stretched in a wild riot of green, though the bones of a once well-ordered series of parterres and pathways, avenues and orchards, existed still.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • These characteristics are just as evident in a potager (kitchen garden) as they are the parterres (low, ornamental gardens with paths between the beds) of a chateau—all are executed with equally deft skill.

    That Garden Je Ne Sais Quoi Charlotte Moss 2011

  • The garden on the front of the house is organized in terraces and parterres, forming a decorative outline surrounded by a surface covered with white gravel.

    Stylish Pozuelo House in Madrid 2010

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