rockery
Americannoun
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rockeries
plural
noun
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Origin of rockery
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I asked Goetz whether there is ever a time to just give up, like when a rockery is filled with weeds and needs to be rebuilt to correct the problem.
From Seattle Times ● May 18, 2024
For yes, in case you’ve been living under a giant rockery, George Eliot was a “her,” with several roles other than her nom de plume: daughter, sister, friend, wife, stepmother.
From New York Times ● Aug. 13, 2023
In the Essex village of Easthorpe, a sheela was deemed too obscene to keep and so was given to a museum after serving time in the vicarage garden rockery.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2019
Officers later found paint chips on rockery and pieces of plastic in the road near 40th Avenue Southwest and Southwest Genesse Street, according to the charges.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2017
She's on a work-to-rule till she gets her rockery, I reckon.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
Since trapping restarted, stoats have been found making dens in attics, under kitchen floorboards, in garden rockeries, and in greater density than on the UK mainland.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2023
The “National China Garden” is to feature a lake, a two-storey teahouse, rockeries, pavilions, bamboo groves, art exhibits and a homage to the White Pagoda of Yangzhou.
From Economist ● Jun. 26, 2014
“Old compost heaps, sheds and patios to nest under, rockeries full of cavities and so on.”
From Washington Post
“Oh, I get it. Harper’s Bazaar does a special on rockeries so of course we have to have one too.”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
Kingfisher Meadows was all rain-stained walls, dripping bird tables, wet gnomes, swilling ponds, and shiny rockeries.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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