ramada

plural ramadas

1. USA simple arbour or open porch, typically roofed with branches.First known use 19th c.

   As protection against the fierce heat, he caused a ramada to be constructed over and around his tent, which he employed only for sleeping.

   2006, Wayne R Kime, Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, page 23

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   They sat in the shade of the pole and brush ramada in front of the place and sipped their drinks and looked out at the desolate stillness of the little crossroads at noon.

   1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

   The well- built structure suggested that the occupation was not temporary, and the presence of the ramada indicated that at least part of the occupation was during warm weather.

   2008, Sally Binford, Lewis Binford, Archeology in Cultural Systems, page 155