Bower

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle..

Definitions by Sense

1. A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
2. (literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
3. A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
4. (ornithology) A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.
5. To embower; to enclose.
6. (obsolete) To lodge.
7. A peasant; a farmer.
8. Either of the two highest trumps in the card games euchre and five hundred (where the joker is omitted).

Example Sentences

Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, / And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower.

Rosa refused to return to the lair of the raper, but was induced to give Tudy what his mother described as ‘his last bit of happiness’ in a bower hastily got ready at Montrose, the La Plante mansion on Greenock Heights.

While friends arrived in circles gay, To visit Damon's bower

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: / Its loveliness increases; it will never / Pass into nothingness; but still will keep / A bower quiet for us, and a sleep / Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

[…]say that thou overheard'st us, And bid her steal into the pleached bower, Where honey-suckles, ripen'd by the sun, Forbid the sun to enter;[…]

That night Tarzan built a snug little bower high among the swaying branches of a giant tree, and there the tired girl slept, while in a crotch beneath her the ape-man curled, ready, even in sleep, to protect her.

The entire town mated together, in the leafy bowers that had sprung up among the washing-machines and television sets in the shopping mall, on the settees and divans by the furniture store, in the tropical paradises of the suburban gardens.

The branches met overhead in a kind of bower and the three cops stood in the shade and studied the roughcast gable of the cottage, maybe fifty yards on up the hill.

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Word Forms

• bowers
• bowre
• bowering
• bowered
• bougher

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