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Definition of Sunken garden
1. Noun. A garden set below the level of the ground surrounding it.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sunken Garden
Literary usage of Sunken garden
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Stvdies for Albany by Arnold William Brunner, Charles Downing Lay (1914)
"The idea of a sunken garden, which is apparently generally accepted, is carried
out by the sloping sides which are to be covered with grass. ..."
2. The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition: A Pictorial by Louis Christian Mullgardt, Maud Wotring Raymond (1915)
"... In the eastern portion of the sunken garden is the Fountain of the Rising Sun.
The tall, slender shaft, a column of travertine by day and a column of ..."
3. American Gymnasia and Athletic Record (1906)
"If the land is much below grade and filling is scarce, it can be made a sunken
garden with catch basins and sewer connections so that it drains to the ..."
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