flower bed

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See also: flower-bed and flowerbed

English

Noun

flower bed (plural flower beds)

  1. Alternative spelling of flowerbed
    • 1895–1897, H G Wells, “The Epilogue”, in The War of the Worlds”, in Pearson’s, London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd, published 1897, page 103, column 2:
      And strange, too, it is to stand on Primrose Hill, as I did but a day before writing this last chapter, to see the great province of houses, dim and blue through the haze of the smoke and mist, vanishing at last into the vague lower sky, to see the people walking to and fro among the flower beds on the hill, to see the sightseers about the Martian machine that stands there still, to hear the tumult of playing children, and to recall the time when I saw it all bright and clear cut, hard and silent, under the dawn of that last great day. . .