Noun: espalier
| Singular | espalier |
| Plural | espaliers |
Sample Sentences
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The garment stalls carried the traditional blue vine-dressers' outfits, sunhats, and the great willow pitchforks grown in espalier at villages like Sauve. [1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 223:]
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It is on this rocky surface that one finds many of the growth forms associated with extreme life conditions: polsters, mat plants, espaliers. [1915 April, F. J. Smiley, “The alpine and subapline vegetation of the Lake Tahoe region”, in Botanical Gazette, volume 59, page 265:]
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Often some night-animal, hedgehog or weasel, setting out on the hunt, disturbed the lovers, or sometimes they heard a ripe peach falling all alone from the espalier. [1886, Gustave Flaubert, chapter XII, in Eleanor Marx-Aveling, transl., Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners […], London: Vizetelly & Co., […], →OCLC, part II, page 218:]
Nouns inflected like espalier
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French espalier, from Italian spalliera, from spalla (“shoulder”). See: French Nouns '
espalier', Italian Nouns '
spalliera'.