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gardenalia en · NOUN

Etymology

From garden + -alia.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Collectible or miscellaneous items related to gardens and gardening
    • As a practical gardener, painter and builder of gardenalia such as shell grottoes, she was important in that she used the idea of 'landscape as painting' […] 2000, Christopher Christie, The British Country House in the Eighteenth Century, page 144:
    • However, Tracey knew that she would need more than the flowers from her garden to create a viable business and so began to make trips to Newark antiques fair to hunt for vintage china, gardenalia, enamelware, small armoires, […] 2012, Emma Jones, Turn Your Talent Into a Business:
    • And that's not all the celebrity gardenalia; you can also gawp at Vanessa Feltz's dibber. 2001, Elijah Howarth, F. R. Rowley, W. Ruskin Butterfield, The Museums Journal, volume 101, page 58:

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