Arbour
[ɑ:bә]
Definition
n. an enclosed seat in a garden covered with branches of trees plants &c.: a bower: a shaded walk.—adj. Ar′boured.
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Examples
- The arbour was an arch in the wall, lined with ivy; it contained a rustic seat. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Here, Jane, is an arbour; sit down. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Now it so happened that Mr. Jingle was walking in the garden close to the arbour at that moment. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- What do you think I see in this very arbour last night? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The spinster aunt took up a large watering-pot which lay in one corner, and was about to leave the arbour. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It looked over the wall, if you stood on tip-toe; and, with a trellis-work of scarlet beans and a canary or so, would become a very Arbour. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The breech had four chambers and was rotated by hand on an arbour parallel to the barrel. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He slept a good deal after dinner, or basked in the arbours of the pleasant inn-gardens. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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