How to Use parterre in a Sentence
parterre
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Where a bland concrete yard once stood, a pretty walled garden was created, inspired by 17th-century parterre design.
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Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
13 Aug. 2025
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Behind the main house, a geometric parterre garden unfurls toward an 88-foot swimming pool tiled with a swirling mosaic tile sun motif.
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Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
9 Dec. 2025
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Boxwoods are also the key ingredient to making a classic formal garden with low parterres that create pathways and separate plant beds.
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Melissa Locker,
Southern Living,
1 May 2026
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Another overhead look captures the main residence, parterre gardens, and striking mosaic swimming pool.
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Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
9 Dec. 2025
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Funded by private donations to the Trust, the first lady added 200 new roses and formal boxwood parterre borders with perennial and annual plantings.
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Tamara Keith,
NPR,
23 Aug. 2025
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An English cottage garden (also known simply as a cottage garden) is less structured and more natural in appearance than a more formal English garden (also called a parterre).
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Haniya Rae,
Martha Stewart,
5 Feb. 2026
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Each year, the plaza at Lincoln Center goes through a vernal transformation, its formal granite parterre converted to a busy dance floor with twinkling lights, part of the center’s Summer for the City programming.
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Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
22 May 2026
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