From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englisharbourar‧bour British English, arbor American English /ˈɑːbə $ ˈɑːrbər/ noun [countable] DLGa shelter in a garden made by making plants grow together on a frame shaped like an arch
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arbour• The path leads down and around to a brick-paved seating area situated beneath a climber-covered arbour looking back towards the house.• To provide vertical emphasis and break the line of those surrounding walls, pergolas and a rose covered arbour have been introduced.• Behind a screen of scented orange-blossom was a little arbour with a stone bench, and she took refuge there.• She also received a rose arbour for her garden where she plans to spend more time in her retirement.• Past the overgrown lawn, through the decrepit rose arbour and into the Wilderness.• I strolled on into the arbour.• When the arbour collapsed, when the pear tree blew over, they cleared the wreckage and left Nature to it. 