Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
arbor .
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- noun A
shady sitting place , usually in a park or garden, and usually surrounded by climbing shrubs or vines and other vegetation.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a framework that supports climbing plants
Etymologies
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Examples
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They recalled the arbour with clematis, the dresses she had worn, the furniture of her room, the whole of her house.
Madame Bovary 2003
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In the rose garden was an arbour smothered in riotous bloom, and in the arbour was a divan, wide and low and voluptuously soft, meet for the repose of an invalid on a languorous afternoon, or indeed any other time.
The Definite Object A Romance of New York Jeffery Farnol 1915
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It looked just the same as the other parts of the curtains -- only half hidden among the bushy leaves near the rustic doorway that Lena called the arbour, she found out a queer brown little face that she had not seen before.
Hoodie Mrs. Molesworth 1880
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They recalled the arbour with clematis, the dresses she had worn, the furniture of her room, the whole of her house.
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 1850
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Behind is a garden about the size of a good drawing-room, with an arbour, which is a complete sentry-box of privet.
Our Village Mary Russell Mitford 1821
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Miss Mowcher untied her bonnet, at this passage of her discourse, threw back the strings, and sat down, panting, on a footstool in front of the fire — making a kind of arbour of the dining table, which spread its mahogany shelter above her head.
David Copperfield 2007
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In the middle stood a small mound, looking as if it had been made artificially, with a kind of arbour on the top overgrown with some sort of creeper and shut in by trees.
Chatterbox, 1905. Various
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Miss Mowcher untied her bonnet, at this passage of her discourse, threw back the strings, and sat down, panting, on a foot-stool in front of the firemaking a kind of arbour of the dining-table, which spread its mahogany shelter above her head.
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Miss Mowcher untied her bonnet, at this passage of her discourse, threw back the strings, and sat down, panting, on a footstool in front of the fire - making a kind of arbour of the dining table, which spread its mahogany shelter above her head.
David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917
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But one of the principal paths led to a kind of arbour, or temple, where long ago palms had been planted in a ring, and had formed
The Golden Silence 1901
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