bosquet
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The girls used to go to the bosquet, which adjoined the gardens of the palace, collect flowers, and make a garland, which they hung on a rope stretched across the court-yard of the palace.
From Valerie by Marryat, Frederick
All the elegance of the château, all the seductive beauty of terrace, garden, and bosquet, all the piquant surprises of play and pyrotechnics, what were they?
From The Tapestry Book by Candee, Helen Churchill Hungerford, Mrs.
The horse swam to a bosquet that rose out of the sea, and 101 there the herd of sea-horses was grazing.
From Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)
The great gardens were brought into use in all the beauty of flower and vine, of lawn and bosquet, of terrace and fountain.
From The Tapestry Book by Candee, Helen Churchill Hungerford, Mrs.
In another corner two turtle-doves cooed melodiously, while from behind a little bosquet a nightingale sang its soft stave of love, sorrow, and triumph.
From Black Diamonds by Jókai, Mór
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