"Sharawadgi"
"Among the Chinese, the greatest reach of imagination is employed in contriving figures where the beauty shall be great and strike the eye, but without any order... We have hardly any notion of this sort of beauty, yet they have a particular word to express it...sharawadgi. And whoever observes the work upon the best India gowns, or the painting upon their best screens or porcelains, will find their beauty is all of this kind, that is, without order."
--Sir William Temple, 1685,
The Gardens of Epicurus

Sir William Temple (1628–1699), an English diplomat and botanist, admired the informality of Chinese garden design. He wrote a treatise that introduced the eastern notion of sharawadgi, which referred to natural beauty and the element of surprise found in the landscape. The word sharawadgi may have been derived from an actual Chinese word, but it also may have been invented by Temple to describe what he called "beauty without order"—a design ethos that differed considerably from the western taste for symmetrical formality. Temple’s endorsement of sharawadgi helped popularize the unconstrained imagination that characterized English Chinoiserie.