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garden suburb

British  

noun

  1. a suburb of a large established town or city, planned along the lines of a garden city

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The Bedford Park Society said that Bedford Park, near Turnham Green station in west London, was the world's first garden suburb, and the inspiration for the garden cities that followed.

From BBC Jan. 11, 2013

It's rather a pity, so soon after the boy was born... just as you were expecting a rise, too, and we were going to move into that nice cottage in the garden suburb.

From The Drama Of Three Hundred & Sixty-Five Days Scenes In The Great War by Sir Hall Caine

It would not flourish in a garden suburb.

From Helena Brett's Career by Desmond Coke

To a girl almost bursting with the ashamed desire for self-development a garden suburb must be Paradise indeed.

From Helena Brett's Career by Desmond Coke

It was at the beginning of that garden suburb.

From The Judge by Rebecca West

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