Definition of "arbour" []

• Chiefly British Variant of arbor1. (noun)

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• "They recalled the arbour with clematis, the dresses she had worn, the furniture of her room, the whole of her house."
• "In the rose garden was an arbour smothered in riotous bloom, and in the arbour was a divan, wide and low and voluptuously soft, meet for the repose of an invalid on a languorous afternoon, or indeed any other time."
• "It looked just the same as the other parts of the curtains -- only half hidden among the bushy leaves near the rustic doorway that Lena called the arbour, she found out a queer brown little face that she had not seen before."