grapery
noun
a building where grapes are grown.
graperies
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pluralof grapery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Some of our numerous designs for graperies, both of the curvilinear and straight roofed form, would, with slight alteration in adding to the means of ventilation, be well adapted to this purpose.
From Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings by George E. (George Evertson) Woodward
In New Hampshire, last summer, I was shown open-air graperies wholly managed by women, in several different localities, and was very happy to be told that my own influence had largely contributed to the experiment.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
She drew upon her accumulation of money that had thriven long in a private bank, and expended it in laying out new lawns, planting new trees, building new stables, erecting tasteful graperies and kiosks.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 1 by Various
Planting, 83, 85. distances, 75. grafted vines, 68. in graperies, 198.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick
It has been described how the Misses Dobbin lived with their father at a fine villa at Denmark Hill, where there were beautiful graperies and peach-trees which delighted little Georgy Osborne.
From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
