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- noun Plural form of
espalier . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
espalier .
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Examples
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Apple and plum espaliers "basked upon bricks of brown", and the sounds of playing children drift in from the street beyond the wall – prompting a gloomy fantasy about impending death.
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Also for the summer chop are plums (vulnerable to infection if pruned in winter) and any trained trees – espaliers, fans and stopovers – which must be kept snipped back to the framework.
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Gilles Guillot continues that tradition at Orsan with pleached hedges, topiary forms and espaliers in many shapes.
Paradise Regained 2010
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These earthworks, as it were, are crowned with trellises and espaliers, so that the steep path that lies at the foot of the upper wall is almost hidden by the trees that grow on the top of the lower, upon which it lies.
La Grenadiere 2007
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Stone walls or espaliers surround the property, and all sorts of fruit-trees are planted among the vines; in short, not an inch of this precious soil is wasted.
La Grenadiere 2007
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Stone walls or espaliers surround the property, and all sorts of fruit-trees are planted among the vines; in short, not an inch of this precious soil is wasted.
La Grenadiere 2007
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These earthworks, as it were, are crowned with trellises and espaliers, so that the steep path that lies at the foot of the upper wall is almost hidden by the trees that grow on the top of the lower, upon which it lies.
La Grenadiere 2007
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Both office windows gave upon the street, and were protected by heavy iron bars; but the private office looked into the garden at the back, wherein Doublon, an adorer of Pomona, grew espaliers with marked success.
Eve and David 2007
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Both office windows gave upon the street, and were protected by heavy iron bars; but the private office looked into the garden at the back, wherein Doublon, an adorer of Pomona, grew espaliers with marked success.
Eve and David 2007
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The window-shutters were not yet closed, and the fire — and candle-light within radiated forth upon the thick bushes of box and laurestinus growing in clumps outside, and upon the bare boughs of several codlin-trees hanging about in various distorted shapes, the result of early training as espaliers combined with careless climbing into their boughs in later years.
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