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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

In front of the new hedge, a simple 9-foot arbor, also stained a dark color, supports Clematis armandii, providing an evergreen tracery of foliage that’s smothered with fragrant white blooms in early spring.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 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

Her brother, my great-uncle, tended a huge arbor of grapes outside their Bakersfield home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2022

Some were sensitive to sunlight, so Tam Lin had constructed a latticework arbor.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

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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