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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In landscape-gardening, noting that style or spirit of treatment which is characterized by an essentially formal handling, being dominated by the architecture or the engineering, while still retaining some natural features; not admittedly and designedly formal, but still not unreservedly free and natural.

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