“Pergola” — that’s a flower, right? As in “While strolling through the lush garden, he picked a red pergola and gently placed it in her hair.”
No, a pergola is not a flower.
A pergola is not exotic, nor is it delicious. It’s the snooty word for a trellis. You know a trellis – that airy structure in the garden; it’s got no roof, just a sort of open canopy, perhaps with vines growing on it. Webster¹ defines it as “a structure usually consisting of parallel colonnades supporting an open roof of girders and cross rafters.”
