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arbor

[ahr-ber] / ˈɑr bər /








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There the tribe has built a senior center and a shaded arbor for its ceremonial gatherings, including the making of “nupa,” the Miwok word for acorn soup.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2025

Trees will be delivered with stakes, ties, arbor guards and an instructional DVD on tree planting and maintenance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2024

This can include an arbor, pergola or other wood framing over the deck or patio, Williamson says.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 2023

One-story homes of concrete or mud brick dot the landscape in pastel clusters, some with grape arbor vines climbing their roofs, interspersed with the occasional small school or mosque.

From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2023

Through an arbor, I could see a deck off the back of the house with a view of a cove that belonged in a summer camp for rich kids.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

In this reign also 200 "grossos arbores," near Drogheda, were valued at 16l.;

From Notes and Queries, Number 235, April 29, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Groups of trees like Sex arbores were venerated, perhaps for their height, isolation, or some other peculiarity.

From The Religion of the Ancient Celts by J. A. MacCulloch


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