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Orangery

noun
1.
A place where oranges are grown; a plantation of orange trees in warm climes or a greenhouse in cooler areas.






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"Orangery" Quotes from Famous Books



... that golden book of spirit and sense, that holy writ of beauty, there is a most fascinating account of an amateur performance of As You Like It in the large orangery of a French country house. Yet, lovely as Gautier's description is, the real presentation of the play last week at Coombe seemed to me lovelier still, for not merely were there present in it all those elements of poetry and picturesqueness which le ...
— Reviews • Oscar Wilde

... the Bastille was taking place, there was a ball given in the orangery at Versailles, where the court ladies and the officers of the troops danced, and laughed, and talked, and took their refreshments, as if all was well. The French Parliament was sitting in the town of Versailles; and they sent some of their body repeatedly ...
— The Peasant and the Prince • Harriet Martineau



Words linked to "Orangery" :   glasshouse, plantation, nursery, greenhouse



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