quenouille

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) The distaff- or cone-like shape of a tree that has been subjected to quenouille training.
 * 2) A tree trained to grow in this shape, the shape of a cone.
 * 3) * 1841 July, William Kenrick, letter from Newton, in The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs, page 284:
 * 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 ...
 * 1) * 1846, Charles Mason Hovey (editor, and author of Article I), "Article I", in Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs
 * The garden is laid out with a central walk through its entire length, and on each side of this are planted dwarf pears, some trained as pyramidal trees, some as quenouilles, and some as espaliers : and with these Mr. Washburn has tried ...
 * 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 ...
 * 1) * 1846, Charles Mason Hovey (editor, and author of Article I), "Article I", in Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs
 * The garden is laid out with a central walk through its entire length, and on each side of this are planted dwarf pears, some trained as pyramidal trees, some as quenouilles, and some as espaliers : and with these Mr. Washburn has tried ...

Etymology
, from, from , dissimilated form of , from.

Noun

 * 1) distaff
 * 2) cattail