Pergola vs Pagoda - What's the difference?
pergola | pagoda |
A framework in the form of a passageway of columns that supports a trelliswork roof; used to support and train climbing plants
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An Asian religious building, especially a multistory Buddhist tower, erected as a shrine or temple.
An ornamental structure, of that design, erected in a park or garden.
A unit of currency, a coin made of gold or half gold, issued by various dynasties in medieval southern India.
As nouns the difference between pergola and pagoda
is that pergola is (l) (trelliswork roof used to support climbing plants) while pagoda is an asian religious building, especially a multistory buddhist tower, erected as a shrine or temple.pergola
English
(wikipedia pergola)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
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.
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- 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.