The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word PARTERRE
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More clues leading to the result PARTERRE
- Share mistake and initially even Wall Street stalls?
- Role was out mainly in the garden
- Some wandered briefly in garden
- Not all were wrong to waste day in garden
- Standard rent said to be for bedding arrangement
- Some slip close to the flower garden
- Leave before taking in rector’s formal garden
- Prune round half of terraced formal garden
- Behind divider, note arrangement of beds
- One goes about producing flower arrangement
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The straight part
We know that "formal garden" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case formal garden = parterre.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does PARTERRE mean?
PARTERRE noun- A flowerbed, particularly an elevated one.
- A garden with paths between such flowerbeds.
- A part of the section of theater seats located on the ground floor, on the same level as the orchestra.
- (by extension) That part of a theater audience seated in the parterre, sometimes regarded as belonging to a lower social class.
- An apartment balcony.