noun, masculine/tʁɔ.ɛn/plural: troènes
troène is masculine in French.
privet
“Pour arriver chez la nourrice il fallait, après la rue, tourner à gauche, comme pour gagner le cimetière, et suivre, entre des maisonnettes et des cours, un petit sentier que bordaient des troènes.” — To get to the nurse’s it was necessary to turn to the left on leaving the street, as if making for the cemetery, and to follow between little houses and yards a small path bordered with privet hedges.