(n.) A railing or trellis upon which fruit trees or shrubs are trained, as upon a wall; a tree or row of trees so trained.
(v. t.) To form an espalier of, or to protect by an espalier.
Example Sentences:
(1) "In Argentina, Chile and China there are immense plantations with the olives grown on espaliers so they can be harvested mechanically," says Pere Solé on his farm at La Bisbal del Penedès in Catalonia.
Topiary
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to ornamental gardening; produced by cutting, trimming, etc.; topiarian.
Example Sentences:
(1) A brightly coloured train rattles across their path and stops abruptly and, after an affectionate hug, the two creatures climb aboard, carefully fasten their seatbelts and are bounced away to a rendezvous with their friends (a lavishly hatted family of peg dolls called the Pontipines; Makka Pakka, a squat, fuzzy troglodyte with OCD, and the Tombliboos, a triumvirate of pastel-coloured pepper pot creatures who live inside a topiary bush).
(2) The hoax story suggested Murdoch had taken [the rare-earth metal] "palladium" before "stumbling into his famous topiary garden late last night".
(3) It has a colonnaded porch and neatly trimmed topiary, but several aspects of the house are definitely in breach of the Celebration pattern book.
(4) Some women might take exception to any expectation regarding preferred topiary, but if you are polite and time it correctly, you may avoid a sharp jab to the goolies.
(5) Haunted bathrooms, the echoing memories of debauched parties, a topiary animal garden that seems to come to life, wasps' nests that feature a never-ending stream of hostile insects.
(6) In reality, it’s just a broad, majestic avenue that climbs up a low rolling hill from the sea in central downtown Vedado, studded with topiary trees and statues of national heroes.
(7) He's as old as Smith, but less prone to bursts of elaborate facial topiary.
(8) You are next," tweeted the person behind the LulzSec Twitter account, thought to be the member known as Topiary, a Swedish-born citizen who lives in the Netherlands.
(9) Anyway, the most scary thing, apart from Louis Walsh's new expensive head-topiary, was … no, there's no apart.
(10) The maze is an addition ; a replacement for a topiary animal garden, which I'll come to later.
(11) Their websites look eminently respectable: a view of Georgian stucco, offices in exclusive postcodes, a smart Farrow and Ball front door with neatly topiaried trees.