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arbor
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arbor as in:  shaded arbor

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    Leafy green vines draped the arbors and the grapes were ready to drop.  (source)
    arbors = frameworks that support climbing plants
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    Jeremy Finch, Maudie Atkinson told me you broke down her scuppernong arbor this morning.  (source)
    arbor = a framework that supports climbing plants
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    She stops beside an arbor alive with the sound of bees.  (source)
    arbor = a framework that supports climbing plants; or a shady rest area made by such a framework or by trees and shrubs
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    Yonder, not far, was a grape arbor Mr. Garner made.  (source)
    arbor = a framework that supports climbing plants
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    His weapon now steadied by both hands, he started towards the arbour.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use arbor.
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    Now the city covered the shore as far as Catelyn could see; manses and arbors and granaries, brick storehouses and timbered inns and merchant's stalls, taverns and graveyards and brothels, all piled one on another.  (source)
    arbors = frameworks that support climbing plants
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    There are bowers and arbours in these villa gardens and young men in shirt-sleeves on ladders trimming roses.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use arbors.
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    I ask Nathaniel as we stroll over to the arbor.  (source)
    arbor = a framework that supports climbing plants; or a shady rest area made by such a framework or by trees and shrubs
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    Will your Royal Highness be pleased to open Pulverulentus Siccus at the fourth page of his Grammatical garden or the Arbour of Accidence pleasantlie open'd to Tender Wits?†  (source)
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    I mean, I wasn't exactly a gardening type, but Calypso had arbors covered with six different colors of roses, lattices filled with honeysuckle, rows of grapevines bursting with red and purple grapes that would've made Dionysus sit up and beg.  (source)
    arbors = frameworks that support climbing plants
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    To and fro I paced before this skeleton—brushed the vines aside—broke through the ribs—and with a ball of Arsacidean twine, wandered, eddied long amid its many winding, shaded colonnades and arbours.†  (source)
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    One night I became really alarmed when I stood in the rose arbor watching him for one solid hour, during which he never moved from his knees and never once lowered his arms, which he held outstretched in the form of a cross.  (source)
    arbor = a framework that supports climbing plants; or a shady rest area made by such a framework or by trees and shrubs
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    The Bishop came and sat down in a wheelbarrow that stood at the edge of the arbour.†  (source)
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    IT'S ARBOR DAY!  (source)
    ARBOR = a holiday when people are encouraged to plant trees
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    "Sweet reds," he cried in fluent Dothraki, "I have sweet reds, from Lys and Volantis and the Arbor."  (source)
    Arbor = the name of a place
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    Then there was this fancy restaurant in Ann Arbor where I got a job waiting tables.  (source)
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    It was exciting to move to Baltimore from the relatively small town of Ann Arbor.  (source)
    Arbor = the name of a place
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    This someplace turned out to be a huge house in the Arbors, at the end of a cul-de-sac.  (source)
    Arbors = a neigborhood
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    Ann Arbor, Michigan  (source)
    Arbor = the name of a place
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    "The Arbors," I said.  (source)
    Arbors = a neigborhood
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    He had a breach of promise with a hairdresser, a widow, who came to Ann Arbor from St. Louis, Mich.  (source)
    Arbor = the name of a place
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    There's also a party we can go to in the Arbors, Matthew Ridgefield has a keg somewhere and, oh, and Remy has to dump Jonathan.  (source)
    Arbors = a neigborhood
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    By night, he'd slip out of Ann Arbor, for that town's opposite number.  (source)
    Arbor = the name of a place
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    Rich and functional, they lived in a big house in the Arbors, where up until the year before, she'd been the ideal daughter, pulling straight As and lettering in field hockey.  (source)
    Arbors = a neigborhood
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    I discover Razor was the youngest of five kids, grew up in Ann Arbor, where his dad worked as an electrician and his mom as a middle school librarian, played baseball and soccer and loved Michigan football.  (source)
    Arbor = the name of a place
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    "Okay," he said to me one night, as we sat on the back deck rail at a party in the Arbors, a neighborhood just down from my own, "what's that about?"  (source)
    Arbors = a neigborhood
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