| Title: | Bower, tunnel arbor |
| Original Title: | Berceau, Tonnelle |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 2 (1752), p. 206 |
| Author: | Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville (biography) |
| Translator: | Ann-Marie Thornton [Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey] |
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| Source: | Russell, Terence M. and Anne Marie Thornton. Gardens and landscapes in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and D'Alembert : the letterpress articles and selected engravings. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999. Used with permission. |
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| Citation (MLA): | Dezallier d'Argenville, Antoine-Joseph. "Bower, tunnel arbor." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Ann-Marie Thornton. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.780>. Trans. of "Berceau, Tonnelle," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 2. Paris, 1752. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Dezallier d'Argenville, Antoine-Joseph. "Bower, tunnel arbor." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Ann-Marie Thornton. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.780 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Berceau, Tonnelle," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 2:206 (Paris, 1752). |
Bower, tunnel arbour. These two words are synonymous, though tonnelle is older. It is a length of covered walk forming a pergola or arbour, which is made from trees or trellis-work and ornamented with jasmine, honeysuckle, roses, chasselas, verjuice, etc.
Bowers are made from timber, poles, and stakes, and often have flat tops in order for vines and verjuice to be grown there, though flat- topped bowers are less beautiful than arched bowers. [1]
Notes
1. Berceau may mean arbour in the sense of a vaulted trellis ornamented with climbers. An arbour extending into a long trellis of intertwining climbers was called a tonnelle (tunnel arbour), berceau, or berso (bower) in the eighteenth century. The allée en berceau was a fragrant walk. See articles: ‘Allée en berceau’, ‘Berceau’, ‘Tonnelle’, Lambin, in Jellicoe et al., 1991, pp. 9, 53, 557; ‘Galerie’.