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pergole

pergole 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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Origin of pergole

From Italian pergole, plural of pergola.

Questions about pergole

What is pergole the plural of?
Pergole is the plural of pergola.

Words near pergole in the dictionary

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

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