It was what the French call a jardiniere, or a partridge garnished with cabbage, carrots, turnips, etc. From Wordnik.com. [A Residence in France]
Another desk I have made is called a jardiniere table, and was designed for Mrs. Ogden Armour's garden room at Lake Forest. From Wordnik.com. [The House in Good Taste] Reference
An omelet "jardiniere" is two tablespoonfuls of mixed parsley, onion, chives, shallots and a few leaves each of sorrel and chevril, minced fine and stirred into the beaten eggs before cooking. From Wordnik.com. [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference
Boiled fowls, oyster sauce; Glazed tongue A la jardiniere. From Wordnik.com. [Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life.] Reference
She bloomed among them like a pretty paper flower in a filigree jardiniere. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Roast turkey, Perigueux sauce; Braized ham a la jardiniere; Spiced round of beef. From Wordnik.com. [Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life.] Reference
The bedding is of home manufacture, the jardiniere too, is of modelling clay, gaily painted with water colors. From Wordnik.com. [A Catalogue of Play Equipment] Reference
In its jardiniere of Satsuma ware it was all his arms could compass, and a second boy followed with the costly Japanese stand that accompanied it. From Wordnik.com. [The Rim of the Desert] Reference
Flowers stood in vases and a jardiniere with a delicate stand had been moved four feet into a congested part of the room, but had not been smashed or even chipped. From Wordnik.com. [The Jigsaw Man]
I am always talking about flowers Did you know that May and June is when the countryside is full of wild poppies? and asking my great aunts to walk me through their gardens and also I bought a jardiniere for my windowsill this spring. From Wordnik.com. [I must have told my parents their Hibiscus tree looked great on three separate occasions] Reference
Choices are chicken francaise, Swiss steak jardiniere or baked orange roughy. From Wordnik.com. [Vindy.com stories: Vindy.com Newswatch » Breaking News from around Youngstown, Warren, Columbiana Ohio] Reference
Q: My mother left me an 8-inch-high jardiniere she told me was in Roseville's. From Wordnik.com. [LJWorld.com stories: News] Reference
So, instead of scolding him about the jardiniere, I assumed that it was an accident. From Wordnik.com. [Dear Enemy] Reference
He had pushed that big green jardiniere off the window-sill and broken it into five hundred pieces. From Wordnik.com. [Dear Enemy] Reference
The greenhouse was like an immense jardiniere, filling the air with perfume in winter as in summer. From Wordnik.com. [Paz] Reference
I was very impressed with the nice cloth table linens and cool jars for the mustard and jardiniere. From Wordnik.com. [Recent Reviews Near San Francisco, CA] Reference
"Grandfather's Clock," a rug or so of artistic design, and a jardiniere holding growing plants or flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife] Reference
The McGurk had wedged them all together as tight as they would fit into a peacock-blue jardiniere, and plumped it down in the center of the table. From Wordnik.com. [Dear Enemy] Reference
Once or twice a soeur jardiniere with a big, flat straw hat over her coiffe and veil tending the flowers (there were not many) or weeding the lawn, sometimes convalescents or old ladies seated in armchairs under the trees, but there was never any sound of voices or of life. From Wordnik.com. [My First Years As A Frenchwoman, 1876-1879]
Having lunched sumptuously on canned chicken soup, beef a la jardiniere, and pheasant that had been sent them by some of their admirers that morning, they put the bones and the glass can that had contained the soup into the double-doored partition or vestibule, placing a large sheet of cardboard to act as a wad between the scraps and the outside door. From Wordnik.com. [A journey in other worlds A romance of the future] Reference
A jardiniere, through a section of rubber hose, and goes to sleep like. From Wordnik.com. [Peck's Bad Boy Abroad Being a Humorous Description of the Bad Boy and His Dad in Their Journeys Through Foreign Lands - 1904] Reference
Do you want her particularly, dear? "innocently questioned the lady who was absorbed in filling a jardiniere with scarlet geraniums. From Wordnik.com. [Katherine's Sheaves] Reference
“That was Claus’s,” said Ala, with a shudder of distaste, pointing to a cast-iron jardiniere held up by three mythological figures with erect penises. From Wordnik.com. [Fatal Charm: The Social Web of Claus von Bulow] Reference
Gisburn drew back the window-curtains, moved aside a jardiniere full of pink azaleas, pushed an arm-chair away, and said: "If you stand here you can just manage to see it. From Wordnik.com. [The Verdict] Reference
Boeuf à la jardiniere. From Wordnik.com. [The Community Cook Book] Reference
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