Citations:arboured

English citations of arboured

Adjective: "containing or situated close to trees"

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• 1884 — John Mackay Wilson, "Edmund and Helen", in Wilson's Tales of the Borders of Scotland (ed. Alexander Leighton), Walter Scott (1884):

  Adown the vale a stately mansion rose,

  With arboured lawns, like visions of repose

• 1905 — C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson, My Friend the Chaffeur, A. L. Burt Company (1905), Chapter XVIII:

  […] but later she apologized to the quaint court-yard for her misunderstanding, and was more than tolerant of her vast bedroom draped with yellow satin, and opening on an arboured terrace worthy even of a Countess Dalmar.

• 1918 — C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson, Everyman's Land, A. L. Burt Company (1918), Chapter XXVII:

  Our hotel with its pleasant garden and the fine shops — (where it seems you can still buy every fascinating thing from newest jewellery and oldest curiosities, to Amiens' special "roc" chocolates) — the long, arboured boulevards, the cobbled streets, the quaint blue and pink houses of the suburbs, and the poplar-lined walk by the Somme, all, all have the friendliest air!

• 1922 — Roland Pertwee, Men of Affairs, A. L. Burt Company (1922), Chapter 15:

  She liked to stand under the arboured gate with extended hands and from there to speak the first welcoming words and then to link arms and lead the visitor indoors with promises of tea or fires in bedrooms and little kindly appreciations of the fatigue of travelling.

• 1999 — Timothy Findley, Pilgrim, HarperCollins (2010), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  Turning, Emma saw the garden sloping to her feet — its flowers, its lawns, its trees, its paths and destinations — its aspen grove, its summer house, its benches set amidst the arboured shade and the house itself, beyond, and glancing westward on the sun.

• 2010 — Martin Dunford, The Rough Guide to Italy, Rough Guides (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  Take the little walkway back from the street and discover an arboured garden patio setting decorated with appealingly kitsch painted statues and coloured fairy lights.