pergola

Etymology

From Italian pergola, from Latin pergula.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɜːɡələ/

Noun

pergola (plural pergolas)

1. A framework in the form of a passageway of columns that supports a trelliswork roof; used to support and train climbing plants
   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 61:

     By the little garden pergola open to the winds some fluttered peacocks were blotted nervelessly amid the dripping trees, their heads sunk back beneath their wings: while in the pergola itself, like a fallen storm-cloud, lolled a negress, her levelled, polecat eyes semi-veiled by the nebulous alchemy of the rainbow.

   • 2000, Gordon Bock, "Pergolas in perspective", Old-House Journal, July/August 2000:

     While both pergolas and arbors are most dramatic cloaked in climbing, flowing plants, only a pergola will stand naked as a piece of architecture.

   • 2009, Jerri Farris, Creating Garden Accents: Step-by-Step Instructions for 22 Projects, Creative Publishing International (2002), →ISBN, page 98:

     When I first saw the movie, Chocolat, my favorite element wasn't the plot or the character development or even the cinematography. It was the cloth-draped pergola under which a very special birthday dinner was served.

Noun

pergola

1. pergola

Etymology

From Latin pergula.

Noun

pergola f (plural pergole)

1. pergola
2. (heraldry) pall

Anagrams

• pargole, plagerò, pregalo