MEANING
An outdoor framework of posts supporting an open roof of beams or crosspieces, often carrying climbing plants.
Use it for
garden shade; outdoor rooms; cultivated leisure spacesCreate an overhead structure that still admits the weather and sky.
Words that belong together
- vine-covered pergola
- timber pergola
- sit beneath the pergola
On the page
The pergola cast long stripes across the dining table.
Vines covered half the pergola, leaving the other beams bare.
Rain drove them from the pergola into the house.
Related words
Word forms
- Base
- pergola
Usage notes
Primary category: architecture. Usually provides patterned shade rather than a fully weatherproof roof; not identical to a gazebo. Count noun: pergolas.
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