parterre

What is now known as the parterre was called the pit.

Another level down will be the parterre, which can seat 500 and has its own lobby.

I shall get seats in the parterre for next season.

And one can certainly live quite happily without a parterre."

Were those crab apples at the edge of the parterre?

We were at the center of a large grassy rectangle, like a parterre.

It has a surviving example of parterre gardens in its grounds.

In front of the palace were trees and parterres enclosed by walls.

Little attempt seems to have been made to fit the framework to the shape of the parterre.

Extensive additional work on the parterre is planned for this winter.

Behind, the central axis is extended between the former parterres, now grass.

A formal parterre garden is to the north of both listed buildings.

A parterre garden has also been rejuvenated with a new fountain.

You walk and wonder: Could that be a parterre of butterfly weed?

Work also began in 1949 to restore four of the site's six 19th-century parterres.

Again she resumed her apparently idle stroll along the parterre.

By the end of 18th century, the parterre was synonymous with the nation.

At the front, parterres were arranged around two pools.

The villa already stood on its raised platform, extended to one side, where the water parterre is today.

It was she who substituted pools of water for the parterre beds.

Around the parterre, two rows of trees were planted.

This parterre was in fact created and remained in existence for over 100 years.

The entrance to the Parterre is guarded by two large arbors.

They are only slightly raised from the parterres which could be converted into flower beds.

The garden was sunken, laid out in parterre on the south side of the mansion.