Crossword clues for conservatory
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conservatory \Con*serv"a*to*ry\, a. [Cf. F. conservatoire, LL. conservatorius.] Having the quality of preserving from loss, decay, or injury.
Conservatory \Con*serv"a*to*ry\, n. [Cf. F. conservatoire, LL. conservatorium.]
That which preserves from injury. [Obs.] ``A conservatory of life.''
--Jer. Taylor.A place for preserving anything from loss, decay, waste, or injury; particulary, a greenhouse for preserving exotic or tender plants.
A public place of instruction, designed to preserve and perfect the knowledge of some branch of science or art, esp. music.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, "preservative;" 1660s, "greenhouse," from stem of conservation + -ory. In sense "school for performing arts" it is recorded from 1842, from Italian conservatorio or French conservatoire, originally "hospital for foundlings in which musical education was given."
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. 1 (context rare English) pertaining to conservation 2 Having the quality of preserving from loss, decay, or injury. n. (context obsolete English) That which preserves from injury. Etymology 2
n. 1 A greenhouse or hothouse for the display of plants 2 A school of music or drama; a conservatoire
WordNet
n. the faculty and students of a school specializing in one of the fine arts
a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts [syn: conservatoire]
a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner [syn: hothouse, indoor garden]
Wikipedia
Conservatory may refer to:
- Conservatory (greenhouse), a substantial building or room where plants are cultivated, including municipal ones and including attached residential solariums
- Music school, or a school devoted to other arts such as dance
- Sunroom, a smaller glass enclosure attached to a house, also called a conservatory
A conservatory is a building or room having glass or tarpaulin roofing and walls used as a greenhouse or a sunroom. If in a residence, it would typically be attached to the house on only one side. Conservatories originated in the 16th century when wealthy landowners sought to cultivate citrus fruits such as lemons and oranges that began to appear on their dinner tables brought by traders from warmer regions of the Mediterranean. Municipal conservatories became popular in the early 19th century.
Usage examples of "conservatory".
A twenty-year-old stood on Huntington Ave outside the conservatory, waiting for the Arborway back to his chill flat in Jamaica Plain.
As is the fashion in some parts of the city, most of these buildings had shops in their lower levels, though they had not been built for the shops but as guildhalls, basilicas, arenas, conservatories, treasuries, oratories, artellos, asylums, manufacturies, conventicles, hospices, lazarets, mills, refectories, deadhouses, abattoirs, and playhouses.
She had just lowered the gasolier when she looked up and found Ivan watching her from the conservatory.
Most of these afflicted pilgrims to the London conservatory were engaged upon the business of the Goddess richly inspiring the Heliconian choir, but rendering the fountain-waters heady.
The little daughters of the fur-traders, the government officials, the station masters, wheeltappers and platelayers will flock to the conservatory, and, besides, what untold talent might not be discovered amongst the children of the native Siberian peasants themselves?
The morning light poured through the conservatory windows, illuminating the spectacular spray of Plumeria rubra that Victoria was endeavoring to capture with her watercolors.
She went through the conservatory, where the warm whiteness of azalia, and spirea, and arum lilies contrasted curiously with the cold white snow out of doors, to the hall, where a stranger was standing talking to the butler.
Victoria stood looking around the lush conservatory for a moment and then her eyes fell on the glorious blooms of Strelitzia reginae.
Hilary, it transpired, owned the ground floor, a matter of two large high-ceilinged rooms, modern kitchen, functional bathroom, and a pleasant old-fashioned conservatory with plants, cane armchairs, and steps down to an unkempt garden.
The door of the long conservatories were open, and so the air was redolent of sweetness almost intoxicating.
Once there was a gazebo, and a walled kitchen garden, and several plots of ornamentals, and a lily pond with goldfish in it, and a steam-heated glass conservatory, demolished now, that grew ferns and fuschias and the occasional spindly lemon and sour orange.
Mary Hampton, as she crossed over to the conservatory to give her macaws their usual tribute from the dessert dishes.
Laura wanted us to climb up on the sphinxes beside the conservatory, but I said no.
He explained how Elder Ampris, superior to Lars Dahl, student in the Conservatory and as a ruling Elder of the Optherian Council, had approached him, citing the dilemma about Killashandra's true identity and the request to wound her, resolving the quandary.
She had credentials of sufficiently high caliber to gain entrance into the Federal Music Conservatory on Optheria where she hoped she'd be allowed to play on an Optherian organ.