Definitions
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- noun A plantstand or
flowerpot , especially one made of decorated pottery or porcelain. - noun Vegetables served as a garnish over meat.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Another desk I have made is called a jardiniere table, and was designed for Mrs. Ogden Armour's garden room at Lake Forest.
The House in Good Taste Elsie de Wolfe
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It was what the French call a jardiniere, or a partridge garnished with cabbage, carrots, turnips, etc.
A Residence in France Cooper, J Fenimore 1836
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An omelet "jardiniere" is two tablespoonfuls of mixed parsley, onion, chives, shallots and a few leaves each of sorrel and chevril, minced fine and stirred into the beaten eggs before cooking.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette
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The wedding presents Towle Old Master sterling, Royal Doulton “Tiara” bone china, Russell Wright for every day, saucer champagnes, several toasters, a Baccarat jardiniere, several more toasters, several iced tea pitchers, and a two-tone hot-pink polka dot ruffled Fenton glass vase that would have terrorized any flower that got put in it were laid out in the dining room in Chipley.
Dream State Diane Roberts 2008
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The greenhouse was like an immense jardiniere, filling the air with perfume in winter as in summer.
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The greenhouse was like an immense jardiniere, filling the air with perfume in winter as in summer.
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I am always talking about flowers Did you know that May and June is when the countryside is full of wild poppies? and asking my great aunts to walk me through their gardens and also I bought a jardiniere for my windowsill this spring.
I must have told my parents their Hibiscus tree looked great on three separate occasions 2006
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I am always talking about flowers Did you know that May and June is when the countryside is full of wild poppies? and asking my great aunts to walk me through their gardens and also I bought a jardiniere for my windowsill this spring.
La Coquette: 2006
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Flowers stood in vases and a jardiniere with a delicate stand had been moved four feet into a congested part of the room, but had not been smashed or even chipped.
The Jigsaw Man Britton, Paul, 1946- 1997
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The room was awash with roses, pink and red, yellow and white, massed in a great bowl in the centre of the table, arranged in huge bouquets in vases wherever there was a place to set them, and the jardiniere under the window overflowed with them.
Paradise For Two Neels, Betty 1989
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