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Usage examples of "hortus".
Back at the walled garden near the house, Ana turned to survey the gently sloping terrain down to the jungle, and was hit by its unlikely but striking similarity to another would-be paradise, the remnants of which she had once visited, a hortus conclusus whose inhabitants had tried to keep the outside world at bay while an ideal society was being constructed within the boundaries.
And surely the first meeting should be in a living context, and not in a dictionary, like dried flowers in a hortus siccus!