| Title: | Vertugadin, grass amphitheater |
| Original Title: | Vertugadin |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 17 (1765), p. 185 |
| Author: | Louis, chevalier de Jaucourt (biography) |
| Translator: | Ann-Marie Thornton [Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey] |
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Gardening
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| Source: | Russell, Terence M. and Anne Marie Thornton. Gardens and landscapes in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and D'Alembert : the letterpress articles and selected engravings. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999. Used with permission. |
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| Citation (MLA): | Jaucourt, Louis, chevalier de. "Vertugadin, grass amphitheater." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Ann-Marie Thornton. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.489>. Trans. of "Vertugadin," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 17. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Jaucourt, Louis, chevalier de. "Vertugadin, grass amphitheater." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Ann-Marie Thornton. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.489 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Vertugadin," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 17:185 (Paris, 1765). |
Vertugadin, grass amphitheatre , a turf bank in the form of an amphitheatre, of which the outer contours are not parallel.
The word ‘vertugadin’ comes from the Spanish ‘verdugado’, meaning the padding at the top of a skirt, which this garden feature resembles. [1]
Notes
1. See also article Turf amphitheatre, vertugadin.