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Side Pergola N Latticed Archway Covered Climbing Plants

Word pergola
Definition
n. A latticed archway, especially one covered with climbing plants.

Sentence On one side of the house, Judd built a concrete swimming pool and a shaded pergola, and ‘on the other side of the building, in line with my daughter’s room,’ he wrote in an essay about the Block, ’is an alley of green grass and seven plum trees with purple leaves.’
Source The Atlantic

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