garden suburb
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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 Caine, Hall, Sir
The further proposal is to acquire an estate surrounding that open space which has now been secured for ever to the people, and to use this extension to make what is called a "garden suburb."
From Civics: as Applied Sociology by Geddes, Patrick
A long line of bullock-carts was filing along the Jaipur road past the garden suburb of Paharganj, conveying country produce into the city.
From Barclay of the Guides by Strang, Herbert
Making a sort of garden suburb business of it.
From If Winter Comes by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)
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