jardin anglais

[ zhar-dan nahn-gle ]

French.

, plural jar·dins an·glais [zh, a, r, -da, n, zah, n, -, gle].

1. a landscape garden having winding paths and irregular planting.

Word History and Origins

Origin of jardin anglais¹

Literally, “English garden”

Example Sentences

“It was made for one of Marie Antoinette’s most personal retreats at Versailles, the Pavillon Belvédère in the jardin anglais at the Petit Trianon. This chair was part of the most expensive suite of seat furniture ever supplied to the queen, and is the only armchair to have survived.”

From Architectural Digest

The garden of his life kept getting more and more like a jardin Anglais, where only prickly and barren trees, but no fruit-trees, were to be found.

From Project Gutenberg

The palace is surrounded by gardens and ornamental waters—to the north the Jardin de l’Orangerie, to the south the Jardin Anglais and the Parterre, between which extends the lake known as the Bassin des Carpes, containing carp in large numbers.

From Project Gutenberg

Soon the lilacs will be in bloom, and the tulips will flower in the Jardin Anglais, and this week the local authorities are once again turning on Europe's tallest geyser, which sends a shimmering column of water 400 up from the lake into the spring sky.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the handsomest part of the Chauss�e d'Antin, surrounded on every side by the splendid palaces and gorgeous mansions of the wealthiest inhabitants of Paris, stands a small, isolated, modest edifice, more like a Roman villa than the house of some northern capital, in the midst of a park; one of those pleasure-grounds which the French—Heaven knows why—designate as "Jardin Anglais."

From Project Gutenberg