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 inter- ruptions, without an eminence, with here and there a long, low stretch of wood.
From A Little Tour in France by Henry James
Why, the potager of the Villa du Lac supplies the whole of Lacville with fruit and flowers!
From The Chink in the Armour by Marie Belloc Lowndes
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