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rosery

British  
/ ˈrəʊzərɪ /

noun

  1. a bed or garden of roses

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The nights of Union from us are fled * And parting-glooms dim      their radiancy; Ah! had this lasted as hopèd we, but * He left only our breasts      and the rosery.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

From here he carefully surveyed the upright again, then, returning to the rosery, began a careful scrutiny of the gravel paths and the beds.

From The Yellow Streak by Valentine Williams

That was all that was in his mind as he wheeled his bicycle at her side over the turf that lay between the drive and the rosery.

From A Traitor's Wooing by Headon Hill

There was the rosery with the lilac bushes shutting out the view of the green fields beyond; and this was the portion of the garden given up to visitors and boarders.

From Evelyn Innes by George (George Augustus) Moore

The rosery was a pleasant rectangle framed in a sort of rustic bower which in the summer was covered with superb roses of every hue and variety.

From The Yellow Streak by Valentine Williams

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