winter hedge
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of winter hedge
so called in contrast to a hedge on which clothes are dried in summer
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"To be, or not to be?" soliloquised he, from his seat on the gate, as he plucked thin branches off from the bare winter hedge, and scattered them.
From Verner's Pride by Mrs. Henry Wood
And then, hollow as the wind in a winter hedge, the ghost made answer.
From The Torch and Other Tales by Eden Phillpotts
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