MEANING
A building designed to protect orange and other citrus trees, especially through colder seasons.
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- historic orangery
- glass-roofed orangery
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The orangery sheltered citrus trees through winter.
Tall windows lit the historic orangery.
The estate used the restored orangery for gatherings.
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- orangery
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Primary category: architecture. Forms: Singular orangery; plural orangeries. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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