pergola

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The top of the pergola is an awning formed by a skeleton of green-painted wooden strips thickly covered by entwining lemon branches bearing ripening lemons.

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  1. noun An arbor or a passageway of columns supporting a roof of trelliswork on which climbing plants are trained to grow.

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  • Although it was still twilight beyond the pergola, the overhanging wisteria created a darkness that made it difficult to read his expression. —  ThePlayboyBoss’sChosenBride
  • These so-called 'kids' Tilly's mum caught having it off in the pergola were a hot young village stallion of about twenty and the sixteen-year-old sis of one of the Blitz babies. —  F ;SF; - vol 087 issue 04-05 - October-November 1994
  • They wandered into the fragrant dimness of the pergola, and sat down. —  Collected Stories
  • He stood in the center of a generic faxnode pad—that usual circle of permcrete and fancy iron posts topped with a yellow crystal pergola, and near the center of the circle the post holding the inevitable coded sign that he could not read. —  Dan Simmons - Hockenberry 1 - Ilium
  • Free Standing Pergola: A free standing pergola will be away from your home, and consist of four corner posts. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
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/ˈpərgoʊklə, gjuklə/
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