elf means a certain sort of grape. The term came to be used loosely for all covered look- outs. Evelyn mentions a plane and a lime-tree at Strasburg " in which is erected a pergola Fig. 44. of 50 feet wide, and 8 feet from the ground, having ten arches of 12 feet high, all shaded with their… … ful modern pergola formed of Fig. 45 apple-trees at Tyninghame. The banqueting-house was a term in common use in the seventeenth century. This was a solid building of brick or stone, in one or
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