cradle walk

noun

A garden footpath with trees arching over it.

First used 17th c.
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Meanings

nouncradle walk (plural cradle walks)

plural cradle walks

  1. historicalA garden footpath with trees arching over it.First known use 17th c.

    [T]he door opened into a garden, laid out in a cradle-walk, and intervening parterres of roses and other flowers.

    1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC
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