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Sunken garden   /sˈəŋkən gˈɑrdən/   Listen
Sunken garden

noun
1.
A garden set below the level of the ground surrounding it.





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"Sunken garden" Quotes from Famous Books



... his guise of keeper, noticed one thing, which was that while at times her eyes were the blue of steel, sometimes they melted to the colour of bluebells under water. They had been of this last hue when she had stood in the sunken garden, forgetting him and ...
— The Shuttle • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... of Cray's Folly were extensive and carefully cultivated. I had a glimpse of a Tudor sunken garden, but the best view of this was from the window of Harley's room, which because it was the end room on the north front overlooked another part of the grounds, and offered a prospect of the east lawns and ...
— Bat Wing • Sax Rohmer
... a certain curve of the drive after you have passed the formal sunken garden, at which you pause, is the greatest beauty of the Villa Pamfili Doria. You stop to look at it by the impulse of your coachman, and then you keep on driving round, in the long ellipse which the road describes, ...
— Roman Holidays and Others • W. D. Howells


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