pergola
English
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Etymology
Borrowed from Italian pergola, from Latin pergula.
Pronunciation
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Noun
pergola (plural pergolas or pergole)
- A framework in the form of a passageway of columns that supports a trelliswork roof; used to support and train climbing plants.
- 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World[1]:
- 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.
- 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.
- Such a framework employed to provide shade, especially over a patio.
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framework
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Czech
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Noun
pergola f
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Finnish
Noun
pergola
Declension
Inflection of pergola (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | pergola | pergolat | |
genitive | pergolan | pergoloiden pergoloitten | |
partitive | pergolaa | pergoloita | |
illative | pergolaan | pergoloihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | pergola | pergolat | |
accusative | nom. | pergola | pergolat |
gen. | pergolan | ||
genitive | pergolan | pergoloiden pergoloitten pergolain rare | |
partitive | pergolaa | pergoloita | |
inessive | pergolassa | pergoloissa | |
elative | pergolasta | pergoloista | |
illative | pergolaan | pergoloihin | |
adessive | pergolalla | pergoloilla | |
ablative | pergolalta | pergoloilta | |
allative | pergolalle | pergoloille | |
essive | pergolana | pergoloina | |
translative | pergolaksi | pergoloiksi | |
abessive | pergolatta | pergoloitta | |
instructive | — | pergoloin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Italian
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pergola f (plural pergole)
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