[F., = a female gardener, a gardener’s wife, a pot or stand for flowers.] An ornamental receptacle, pot or stand for the display of growing flowers within doors, or on a window-sill, balustrade, or other part of a building; also for the display of cut flowers for the decoration of the table, etc.
1841. Lady Blessington, Idler in France, I. 121. Small jardinières are placed in front of each panel of looking-glass.
1873. Miss Thackeray, Wks. (1891), I. 465. ‘Take care, you will knock over the jardinière,’ cried Mrs. Palmer.
1884. F. Boyle, Borderland, 321. Superb old braziers lately fashionable as jardinières.
