All 11 Uses
conservatory
in
The Blind Assassin
(Edited)
- Once there was a gazebo, and a walled kitchen garden, and several plots of ornamentals, and a lily pond with goldfish in it, and a steam-heated glass conservatory, demolished now, that grew ferns and fuschias and the occasional spindly lemon and sour orange.
p. 58.6conservatory = a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner
- She would meet this lover outside the conservatory, which by that time was neglected — my father had no interest in steam-heated orange trees — but I restored it in my mind, and supplied it with hothouse flowers.
p. 60.1
- There were two stone sphinxes flanking the conservatory —
p. 62.1
- "I'm going to live in the conservatory," I said.
p. 87.3
- Sometimes I hid from her, inside a hollow lilac bush beside the conservatory, where I would read books with my fingers stuck into my ears while she wandered around looking for me, fruitlessly calling my name.
p. 94.7
- Laura wanted us to climb up on the sphinxes beside the conservatory, but I said no.
p. 97.1
- We'd put these things on plates, and take them outside, and eat them here and there — by the pool, in the conservatory.
p. 139.1
- "I was only in the conservatory," she said.
p. 208.6
- He'd run into her in the conservatory.
p. 212.4
- I was all alone, or so it seemed at first, in the ruined glass conservatory at Avilion.
p. 329.4
- The grounds were derelict, the gardens overgrown; the conservatory was a wreck, with broken panes of glass and desiccated plants, still in their pots.
p. 504.3 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(conservatory as in: music conservatory) a school specializing in one of the fine arts -- especially music, dance, or drama
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(2)
(conservatory as in: plants in the conservatory) a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)