gardenalia

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

garden +‎ -alia

Noun[edit]

gardenalia (uncountable)

  1. Collectible or miscellaneous items related to gardens and gardening
    • 2000, Christopher Christie, The British Country House in the Eighteenth Century, page 144:
      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' []
    • 2001, Elijah Howarth, F. R. Rowley, W. Ruskin Butterfield, The Museums Journal, volume 101, page 58:
      And that's not all the celebrity gardenalia; you can also gawp at Vanessa Feltz's dibber.
    • 2012, Emma Jones, Turn Your Talent Into a Business:
      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, []

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