Other forms: arbours
An arbour is a shady shelter made of climbing plants. Sit in the arbour, a rose arbour, build an arbour.
It is grown rather than built — a frame is only the start, and the shade comes from what covers it. The word first meant a herb garden and was pulled towards the Latin arbor, a tree, by people who assumed the connection. American writing spells it arbor.
1nounarbourA shady shelter made of climbing plants.
“We sat in the shady arbour, surrounded by roses and honeysuckle.”
arbour is a shelter.
Also accepted in games: arbor
Middle English erber meant a herb garden, from Old French herbier. The spelling shifted under the influence of Latin arbor, a tree.
Latin
arbor — tree
Middle English
arbere
English, today
arbour
Built from
From Middle English arbere, arber, an alteration of herber, erber (“pleasure garden; herb garden”) influenced by Latin arbor (“tree”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire