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. 58.6

conservatory = 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:

(1) (conservatory as in: music conservatory)
a school specializing in one of the fine arts -- especially music, dance, or drama
(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)