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One skilled in the practice or art of training, cutting, and trimming trees or shrubs into odd or ornamental shapes.

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Usage examples (6)
  • This guy didn't have a stylist, he had a topiarist.
  • Few trees bear cutting so well as the hornbeam, and for this reason, during the reign of the topiarist, it was held in high repute for the formation of the "close...
  • The "picturesque style," however, soon drove the topiarist and his art out of the field, yet even now places still remain in England where the old and once much-belauded...
  • "Where, indeed, your topiarist would be ill at ease," Evander answered.
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