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orangery
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An orangery or orangerie was a room or a dedicated building on the grounds of fashionable residences from the 17th to the 19th centuries where orange and other fruit trees were protected during the winter, similar to a greenhouse or conservatory . The orangery ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ An orangery filled with conservatory plants overlooks placid lawns and a fountain rising from a raised pool. ▪ At Sandridge an extensive orangery took up most of the southern façade ingeniously masking the servants' wing. ▪ From ...
Usage examples of orangery.
I was wearing work gloves in the orangery, of course, but the mess was so foul.
French windows opened onto a double flight of stairs which curved down into the orangery, where fountains pattered like rain under a mass of foliage.
She hurried along the path that led to the old orangery, and with each tap of her heels on the cobbled stones her anger grew.
When the new conservatory had been built closer to the house, the old orangery had been allowed to fall into disuse.
Lucy and Gregory immediately moved forward to peer inside, but the orangery was dark, the only light the moon, shining through the expansive windows.
He stood with his hands on his hips, his stance wide as he scanned the orangery for occupants.
Wingfield turned on his heel, and followed by Dan, a negro lad of some eighteen years old, he walked toward the house, leaving Jonas Pearson, the overseer of the Orangery Estate, looking after him with an evil expression of face.
Wingfield, and upon the fact that she was the life owner of the Orangery, and believed that he would be able to maintain his position even when Vincent came of age.
At the same time it vexed her at heart that there should be any severity on the Orangery Estate, where the best relations had always prevailed between the masters and slaves and she had herself spoken to Jonas on the subject.
Dan and told him to take Dinah to the Orangery, then mounting his horse he rode off home to prepare his mother for the reception of his new purchase.
He had then suffered terrible anxiety all day, and the relief of learning that Vincent himself had bought her, and that she was now installed as a house servant at the Orangery, but a few miles away, was quite overpowering, and for some minutes he could only gasp out his joy and thankfulness.
Wingfield of the Orangery would have anything to do with a runaway, but Mr.
Wingfield of the Orangery, connected as she was with half the old families of Virginia, and herself a large slave-owner, was beyond suspicion, and no one would venture to suggest that such a lady could have the smallest sympathy for a runaway slave.
The next day was spent in a long round of farewell visits, and then Vincent mounted Wildfire, and, with Dan trotting behind, rode off from the Orangery amidst a chorus of blessings and good wishes from all the slaves who could on any pretext get away from their duties, and who had assembled in front of the house to see him start.
I have about a hundred and seventy working hands on the Orangery, and shall be happy to place a hundred at your disposal for as long a time as you may require them.