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ESPALIER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does espalier mean? 

ESPALIER (noun)
  The noun ESPALIER has 1 sense:

1. a trellis on which ornamental shrub or fruit tree is trained to grow flatplay

  Familiarity information: ESPALIER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ESPALIER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A trellis on which ornamental shrub or fruit tree is trained to grow flat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("espalier" is a kind of...):

treillage; trellis (latticework used to support climbing plants)


 Context examples 


Once a kite, hovering over the garden, made a stoop at me, and if I had not resolutely drawn my hanger, and run under a thick espalier, he would have certainly carried me away in his talons.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

She went, however; and when they reached the farm, and she was to be put down, at the end of the broad, neat gravel walk, which led between espalier apple-trees to the front door, the sight of every thing which had given her so much pleasure the autumn before, was beginning to revive a little local agitation; and when they parted, Emma observed her to be looking around with a sort of fearful curiosity, which determined her not to allow the visit to exceed the proposed quarter of an hour.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)



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