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pergolas

pergolas is the plural of pergola.

Meaning of pergola

Noun

pergola (plural pergolas or pergole)

  1. A framework in the form of a passageway of columns that supports a trelliswork roof; used to support and train climbing plants.
    • The thick vegetation met overhead, interlacing into a natural pergola, and through this tunnel of verdure in a golden twilight flowed the green, pellucid river, beautiful in itself, but marvelous from the strange tints thrown by the vivid light from above filtered and tempered in its fall.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
  2. Such a framework employed to provide shade, especially over a patio.

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Proper noun capitalized: Pergolas

Pergolas

  1. (plural) plural of Pergola

Questions about pergolas

What is pergolas the plural of?
Pergolas is the plural of pergola.
What part of speech is pergolas?
Pergolas is a proper noun.

Words near pergolas in the dictionary

  1. pergid
  2. pergids
  3. pergola
  4. pergolaed
  5. pergolalike
  6. pergolas
  7. pergole
  8. Pergolesian
  9. pergolide
  10. Pergolini
  11. Pergolinis

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