flower-bed
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.33 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of flowerbed.
Example Sentences
- "I have a great notion that he lived in the Isle of Wight, somewhere near Brading, in a thatched cottage, half-covered with myrtles, and with such flower-beds in front!"
- "One field was bare, its surface of an ochreish colour deeper than that of clay, broken and smoothed as perfectly as the surface of the most carefully tended flower-bed."
- "He stopped short and looked at the brick wall of the terrace, faced with shallow arches, meagrely clothed by a few unthriving creepers, with an ill-kept narrow flower-bed along its foot."
- "We stopped for a moment at the golf course to chat with members of the Consular staff, and then drove on to the Consulate, which was set upon an eminence, above evidences of landscape-gardening; a sweep of lawns, with coarse, whitened grass; flower-beds in which larkspur and nasturtiums fought against desperate odds."