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bergerie

American  
[ber-zhuh-ree] / bɛr ʒəˈri /

noun

Canadian French.
bergeries plural
  1. a farm, country estate, or other rural retreat maintained by a wealthy owner as a facility for rest and recreation.


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Like most of the novels of its time, though it has not much actual bergerie about it, it suggests the Astrée, but the contrast is glaring.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George

How far outside the true picture now appears that 'blackbird in the apple calling,' and how tainted by the desperate bergerie of the Georgian era!

From Aspects of Literature by Murry, J. Middleton

To these and other tributes Moncrif adds idyls and romances of his own, while regretting that it never occurred to Theocritus to write a bergerie de chats.

From Gossip in a Library by Gosse, Edmund

It was at the epoch of the "bergeries à la Watteau."

From Royal Palaces and Parks of France by McManus, Blanche

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