Noun

(en noun)

* 1818 , Jane Austen, Persuasion :

and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the Mansion House, or look an adieu to the Cottage, with its black, dripping, and comfortless verandah , or even notice through the misty glasses the last humble tenements of the village, without a saddened heart.

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Noun

(en noun)

A framework in the form of a passageway of columns that supports a trelliswork roof; used to support and train climbing plants

* 1919, , 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 1589230418, 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.