Meaning of Pergola | Babel Free
ˈpɜːɡələDefinitions
Equivalents
Examples
“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⟳.”
“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.”
“While both pergolas and arbors are most dramatic cloaked in climbing, flowing plants, only a pergola will stand⟳ naked as a piece of architecture.”
“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.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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