marble orchard

marble orchard

noun Northern, North Midland, and Western U.S. Facetious.

Origin:
1925–30, Americanism
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Marble orchard is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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marble orchard definition


and Marble City
  1. n.
    a cemetery. : I already bought a little plot in a marble orchard. , There is a huge Marble City south of town.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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