pergola

[ pur-guh-luh ]

/ ˈpɜr gə lə /

an arbor formed of horizontal trelliswork supported on columns or posts, over which vines or other plants are trained.

a colonnade having the form of such an arbor.

Origin of pergola

1645–55; < Italian < Latin pergula projecting roof, arbor

Shall we go with him to the theatres—to the opera—to the Pergola?

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 53, No. 331, May, 1843 |Various
A country house without a pergola, she said, was something she had never heard of.

The Letter of the Contract |Basil King
My pergola is built of rustic wood creosoted, which costs very little.

The New Gulliver and Other Stories |Barry Pain
Nancy chanced to have seen Grace and some of her satellites sitting in a pergola on a mound not far away.

A Little Miss Nobody |Amy Bell Marlowe

The bright sunlight touched her hair, and they went over to a pergola she had had built, covered with vines.

The Bad Man |Charles Hanson Towne

pergola

/ (ˈpɜːɡələ) /

a horizontal trellis or framework, supported on posts, that carries climbing plants and may form a covered walk

C17: via Italian from Latin pergula projection from a roof, from pergere to go forward