Definition of "pergola" [per•go•la]

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

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• "Well, often what you'll see in a pergola is a lot more lattice going in closer together and going perpendicular to that, creating the surface for the growing vine and to block sun, of course."
• "A trellised arbour (which some years later would have been called a pergola) led from the porch up the hill to an old-fashioned summer-house on the crest."
• "The pergola is the one that flanked the "Turkish Villa", aka the"