hortulan

English

Etymology

From Latin hortulanus, from hortus (“garden”). Doublet of ortolan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɔː(ɹ)tjʊlən/, /ˈhɔː(ɹ)t͡ʃələn/

Adjective

hortulan (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Belonging to a garden.
   • 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:

     Of the Hortulan Elaboratory, and of distilling and extracting of Waters

   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:

     The remaining heavenly bodies also, though situated for the most part at a great distance, poured down on Watt, and on the hortulan beauties through which he moved, […] a light so strong, so pure, so steady and so white, that his progress, though painful, and uncertain, was less painful, less uncertain, than he had apprehended, when setting out.