clipt

[klipt]

verb

1. Literary.,  a past participle of clip.

Example Sentences

Nor knew we well what pleased us most,25 Not the clipt palm of which they boast; But distant colour, happy hamlet, A mouldered citadel on the coast, Or tower, or high hill-convent, seen A light amid its olives green;30 Or olive-hoary cape in ocean; Or rosy blossom in hot ravine, Where oleanders flushed the bed Of silent torrents, gravel-spread; And, crossing, oft we saw the glisten35 Of ice, far up on a mountain bead.

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Given a few square yards of rescued earth and sufficient manure, and what cannot the neat-handed, frugal-minded, microscopic-eyed Dutchman do in the way of concentrated design with his bulbs, his clipt shrubs, his trim beds, his trickles of water, and strips of grass and gravel!

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We may also assume that the shape would commend itself to the taste of the Renascence School of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, as being that of classic times; for the antique garden was fashioned in a square with enclosures of trellis-work, espaliers, and clipt box hedges, regularly ornamented with vases, fountains, and statuary.

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And the Petit Trianon was in itself an improvement upon, or rather a protest against, the sumptuous splendour of the Orangerie, the basins of Latona and of Neptune, and the superb tapis vert, with its bordering groves of clipt trees and shrubs.

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The gardeners about London," says Mr Lambert, writing to the Linn�an Transactions in 1712, "were remarkable for fine cut greens, and clipt yews in the shapes of birds, dogs, men, ships, &c.

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