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PERGOLA (Lat. pergula, a projecting roof, shed, from perget , to reach forward, project)

PERGOLA (See also:
LAT
Lat. pergula, a projecting roof, See also:
SHED
shed, from perget , to reach forward, project) , a See also:

TERM

term adopted from the See also:

ITALIAN

Italian for an See also:

ARBOUR, or ARBOR (originally " herber " or " erber," O. Fr. herbier, from Lat. herbarium, a collection of herbs, herba, grass; the word came to be spelt " arber " through its pronunciation, as in the case of Derby, and by the 16th century was written " ar

arbour of trellis-See also:

WORK

work over which are trained creeping See also:

PLANTS

plants, vines, &c., and especially for a trellis-work covering a path, walk or See also:

BALCONY (Ital. balcone from balco, scaffold; cf. O. H. Ger. balcho, beam, Mod. Ger. Balken, Eng. balk)

balcony in a See also:

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

garden .

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