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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plants growing in a garden; vegetables for the table.
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Examples
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She was free to go out of the fort, as I have said, and to the river and the fields whence the corn and garden-stuff of the little garrison were brought in.
The Virginians 2006
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This ploughman was in fact a farmer or husbandman, and the account of his dwelling and garden-stuff is very interesting.
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All the vineyards and garden-grounds, for a considerable extent, are vaulted underneath; and all the ground that produces their grapes, fruit, and garden-stuff, is no more than the crumpled lime and rubbish of old Roman buildings, mixed with manure brought from
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Crow from the one that sat in the midst of her poultry and garden-stuff in the Elgin market square; but it was even more the same Mrs Crow, the sum of a certain measure of opportunity and service, an imperial figure in her bead trimming, if the truth were known.
The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan
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The capacities of the market-basket, as then and there revealed, are prodigious, rivalling those of the trunk of travel; and yet out of the cover will still protrude the legs of unadjustable "broilers" and the green fringes of garden-stuff, and all this not counting in the oyster-pail, or the great watermelon which has to be carried separately by its wooden handle.
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The next day the former master of my slave came to ask me for some salad-plants; for I was the only one who had any garden-stuff, having taken care to preserve the seeds I had brought over with me.
History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz
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But if he had really shown her any testamentary tenderness, it would be affecting to think of him, poor man, when he was gone; and even his foolish fuss about the flowers and garden-stuff, and his insistence on the subject of snails, would be touching when it was once fairly at an end.
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Several times the cortege slackened its speed, blocked by a row of heavy carts with mountains of garden-stuff.
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897
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On it was a little house and shed, and no better garden-stuff grew in the parish than on this same five acres.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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On it was a little house and shed, and no better garden-stuff grew in the parish than on this same five acres.
The Pomp of the Lavilettes, Volume 1 Gilbert Parker 1897
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