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quenouille

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Borrowed from French quenouille.

noun quenouilles

The distaff- or cone-like shape of a tree that has been subjected to quenouille training. We had now an opportunity of seeing both pyramidal and quenouille trees, properly so called: they differ so slightly, that it is little wonder the terms should generally be considered as convertible.
A tree trained to grow in this shape, the shape of a cone. At the garden of the London Horticultural Society, the trees are set very remarkably close, and generally trained as quenouilles, or in pyramidal forms. These also bore remarkable crops in that year, being furnished with limbs quite to the ...

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@misc{quenouille_2026,
  title = {quenouille},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/quenouille},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}