potager
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of potager
C17: from French potagère vegetable garden
Example Sentences
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I drew inspiration from French kitchen gardens, known as potager.
From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2023
If you want your veggie garden to resemble the groomed potager of a French chateau, no-till probably isn’t for you.
From Washington Post • Jul. 13, 2021
They are yearning for sweeps of flowering perennials, or a potager or merely a lawn.
From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2015
The wide horizon opens out like a great potager, without interruptions, without an eminence, with here and there a long, low stretch of wood.
From A Little Tour of France by Pennell, Joseph
My heart sank within me when we came in sight of the potager, the glory of Petit Val, so renowned in its day for its fruits and vegetables.
From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by Hegermann-Lindencrone, L. de (Lillie de)
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