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Shade tree   /ʃeɪd tri/   Listen
Shade tree

noun
1.
A tree planted or valued chiefly for its shade from sunlight.






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"Shade tree" Quotes from Famous Books



... to work. Patient, plodding labor, devoid of excitement, was his aversion; though handling a boat, cleaning out a gutter on some dizzy height of the mansion, or cutting off a limb at the highest point of the tallest shade tree on the estate, was entirely to his taste, and he did not regard anything as work which had a spice of danger or a thrill of excitement about it. He was not lazy, in the broad sense of the word; there was not a more ...
— Work and Win - or, Noddy Newman on a Cruise • Oliver Optic



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