英语词汇pleach的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

pleach. An ancient, useful word that lives on mainly to de- scribe a gardening method of pruning and training trees or bushes to make a hedgelike wall. Pleached alleys, rows of pleached (or plashed) trees on each side of a path, are among the most imposing garden features, one of the finest examples being the alley made of pleached London plane trees at Vien- na’s Schonbrunn Palace. But pleach, which means fold or inter- twine, was mainly a poetic word in the past, used by Tennyson and Swinburne, among others. Shakespeare wrote in Antony and Cleopatra:

词汇	pleach
词源	pleach. An ancient, useful word that lives on mainly to de- scribe a gardening method of pruning and training trees or bushes to make a hedgelike wall. Pleached alleys, rows of pleached (or plashed) trees on each side of a path, are among the most imposing garden features, one of the finest examples being the alley made of pleached London plane trees at Vien- na’s Schonbrunn Palace. But pleach, which means fold or inter- twine, was mainly a poetic word in the past, used by Tennyson and Swinburne, among others. Shakespeare wrote in Antony and Cleopatra: Would’st thou be window’d in great Rome and see Thy master thus with pleach’d arms, bending down . . .
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