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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My eyes were half closed, the perfume from the graperies filled the room, and had a pleasant effect upon my senses, and thus I began to forget where I was and what was about me.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various
Occasionally trees may be grown with other plants, as in cold graperies, but the results are not the best and often come very close to failure.
From Dwarf Fruit Trees Their propagation, pruning, and general management, adapted to the United States and Canada by F. A. Waugh
To celebrate the occasion he gave us a little dinner, and invested heavily in nectarines, strawberries and peaches from the graperies.
From On the Fringe of the Great Fight by George G. (George Gallie) Nasmith
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
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
