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Jardiniere   Listen
noun
Jardiniere  n.  
1.
An ornamental stand or receptacle for plants, flowers, etc., used as a piece of decorative furniture in room.
2.
(Cookery) A preparation of mixed vegetables stewed in a sauce with savory herbs, etc.; also, a soup made in this way.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Jardiniere" Quotes from Famous Books



... automobile delivery wagons of the Louvre, the Bon Marche, the Printemps, Petit-Saint-Thomas, La Belle Jardiniere, Potin—all the automobiles with which you are so familiar in the streets of Paris. Of course those are much lighter, and came up bravely. As a rule they are all loaded. It is as easy to take men to the front, and material, that ...
— A Hilltop on the Marne • Mildred Aldrich

... merely say, "Do not forget on such a day to have the garden arranged,"[] and his mother will understand what he means. The whole house is evidently photographed in his mind like the houses in his novels. He knows the exact position of each vase: of the big jardiniere in the first room, the one in the Japanese drawing-room, the two in the domed boudoir, and the two tiny ones in the grey apartment. They are all to be filled with flowers; but the marquetry jardiniere in the green drawing-room, ...
— Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings • Mary F. Sandars

... friendships he had already formed, and advancing with rapid strides in his art, until his renown was spread all over Italy, and with reason, since already, while still young, he had painted his 'Madonna of the Goldfinch,' in the Florentine Gallery, and his 'La Belle Jardiniere,' or Madonna in a garden among flowers, ...
— The Old Masters and Their Pictures - For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art • Sarah Tytler



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