conservatory
/kənˈsɝ.vəˌt(ɔ.)ɹi/ noun C1- A school or clinic for orphans.
- A music school.
- A greenhouse, a glass-walled building for cultivating delicate plants.
- A drama school.
Plural conservatories
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Arnold: I want to thank you for your most kind and opportune aid to my daughter last Friday evening, when she was overcome by an attack of her old heart-trouble in the conservatory at Mrs.
“Tell him that I entered the conservatory that evening from the rear, to cut a rose for my mother.
I left the conservatory, and, at the same time, the rose and my ideal.
On the other side of the house, to match with the library, was the conservatory, ornamented with rare flowers, that bloomed in china jars; and in the midst of the greenhouse, marvellous alike to sight and smell, was a billiard-table which looked as if it had been abandoned during the past hour by players who had left the balls on the cloth.
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