noun
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a place where a number of shrubs are planted
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shrubs collectively
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Etymology
Origin of shrubbery
Vocabulary lists containing shrubbery
Example Sentences
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Shrubbery has turned brown-gray; lawns are expanses of dried, cracked mud.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shrubbery loses its bright snow headgear and stands bare and frail, too undernourished to hide the drains it was intended to hide.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
Shrubbery planted by the monks has grown wild in the courtyards; but you can still call up the picture of the cowled priests chanting prayers.
From Through Our Unknown Southwest by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
Shrubbery, along the walks, and on the circular plot, in front, and flowers close to the house, would look well.
From A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Beecher, Catharine Esther
Mr. Mallathorpe, he said, had gone out of the front door of the Grange at half-past two on Saturday afternoon, carrying a gun, and had turned into the road leading towards the South Shrubbery.
From The Talleyrand Maxim by Fletcher, J. S. (Joseph Smith)
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