flower-bed

plural flower-beds

1. alternativeAlternative form of flowerbed.

   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!

   1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XIX, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 331

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   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.

   1880, Percy Greg, Across the Zodiac

   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.

   1911, Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes

   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.

   1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth