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pergolo

pergolo is the dated form 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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Forms of pergolo

pluralpergolos

Questions about pergolo

What is pergolo the dated form of?
Pergolo is the dated form of pergola.

Words near pergolo in the dictionary

  1. pergole
  2. Pergolesian
  3. pergolide
  4. Pergolini
  5. Pergolinis
  6. pergolo
  7. pergolos
  8. pergula
  9. pergulae
  10. pergulas
  11. pergunnah

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pergolo (page history and authors); pergola (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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