Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A building or other inclosure where grapes are grown, usually a glass-house, whether hot or cold.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A building or inclosure used for the cultivation of grapes.
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- noun a place used for
grape cultivation
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hopkins, the head gardener of Allington, who had men under him, was as widely awake to the lawn and the conservatory of the humbler establishment as he was to the grapery, peach-walls, and terraces of the grander one.
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The lawn and gardens were very beautiful, and they had an elegant greenhouse and a grapery, indeed, everything that heart could wish.
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Experimenting first on plants, he adopted the method of inserting panes of blue and violet glass in the roof of his grapery, and noticed as a result an apparent extraordinary rapidity and luxuriance of growth of the vines, and later a correspondingly large harvest of grapes.
Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence
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It is used in greenhouses, etc., in connection with clear glass; and in General Pleasonton's grapery it appears that only every eighth row of panes was blue.
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His volume contains not only suggestions in landscape-gardening, guided always by the true principle of making Nature our ally rather than attempting to subdue her, but minute directions for the greenhouse, grapery, conservatory, farm, and kitchen-garden.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Various
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Box up the beds or make them in frames inside the grapery; the warm manure will afford the mushrooms heat enough until it is time to start the vines, when the increased temperature and moisture of the house will be in favor of the mushrooms because of the declining heat in the manure beds.
Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure William Falconer
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She went to all the child's odd little haunts -- the grapery, the orchard, the corn-house, even to her own beloved back yard, full of sweet-scented hiding-nooks dear to a child, but sacred ground to Aunt
Rebecca Mary Annie Hamilton Donnell
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As the vines have yielded their fruit by midsummer and ripened their wood early so as to be ready for starting into growth again in December or January, the grapery is kept cool and ventilated in the fall and early winter, but this need not interfere with the mushroom crop.
Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure William Falconer
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He is but a colonial Micmac, or Scotch-Mac; a mere sub-thoughted, irresponsible exotic, in a governmental cold grapery.
Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens
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I looked fine, wore my grey grapery with my drapery, and spread myself out as much as possible.
Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 Maud Howe Elliott 1915
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