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  • noun Plural form of rockery.

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Examples

  • The Qianlong Garden has four connected courtyards with seven buildings, six pavilions, two bowers, a number of rockeries, one belvedere and such poetically named spaces as "Terrace for Collecting Morning Dew."

    A Paradise of Illusion Lee Lawrence 2010

  • Rooted in the Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 B.C.), Chinese gardens by the 18th century combined architecture, vegetation, rockeries, poetry, and the decorative and visual arts to create self-contained worlds.

    A Paradise of Illusion Lee Lawrence 2010

  • Nonsuch boasted a wonderland of groves, rockeries, aviaries, and trellis walks.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • Nonsuch boasted a wonderland of groves, rockeries, aviaries, and trellis walks.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • Nonsuch boasted a wonderland of groves, rockeries, aviaries, and trellis walks.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • I trampled through the landfall with relatively easy stepchildren and my jammed up footballer falls made the nomination of a businessman of clumping rockeries in the landfall.

    Parajanov Contra Zizek (oder selbst proclaimed Brechtian Beast Z vs aSublime moving picture for magnitude of efficacy.) 2010

  • Nonsuch boasted a wonderland of groves, rockeries, aviaries, and trellis walks.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • Chinese mansions contain six or seven courtyards, each with its colonnade, drawing, dining, and reception rooms, and at the back of all there is a flower garden adorned with rockeries, fish-ponds, dwarf trees, and miniature pagodas and bridges.

    The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

  • It was only about a week afterwards that his body was found a quarter of a mile away, broken upon the steep rockeries of a terraced garden leading up to a gaunt and shuttered house called

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • But small pots, about eight inches long, four to five inches broad and two or three inches high, adorned with scenery in the shape of rockeries, were also placed about.

    Hung Lou Meng 2003

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