an open shelter, often having a dome-shaped thatched roof, and installed especially on beaches and picnic grounds.
Origin: 1865–70, Americanism; < American Spanish: open shelter roofed with branches; earlier Spanishenramada arbor, bower, noun use of feminine past participle of enramar to intertwine branches equivalent to en-in-2 + -ramar, verbal derivative of ramo branch < Latinrāmus