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arbour

/ahr-ber/US // ˈɑr bər //UK // (ˈɑːbə) //

凉亭,拱桥,凉棚,灌木丛

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Chiefly British.

    • : a variant of arbor.

Examples

  • I, who had been sitting calm, on the low parapet beneath the tenderly sprouting wistaria arbour, broke my philosophic silence.

  • He pointed with his finger and from behind the old yew arbour came the shrill clamour of a little dog in agony.

  • The grape arbour along the west side of the sundial lawn was also built, of plain chestnut.

  • Our ramblers did their duty well, but the grape arbour and the pergola would not be covered properly in a season.

  • Dick, who had heard nothing of the matter, was up first on that inauspicious day, and took the journal to an arbour in the garden.