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Definition of 'bower'English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ).
Noun
( en-noun)
A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
* Gascoigne
- Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, / And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower .
(literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
- (Shenstone)
A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
* 1599 ,
- 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;
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(ornithology) A large structure made of grass and bright objects, used by the bower bird during courtship displays.
Synonyms
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Verb
( en-verb)
To embower; to enclose.
- (Shakespeare)
(obsolete) To lodge.
- (Spenser)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) boueer, from (etyl) .
Noun
( en-noun)
A peasant; a farmer.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) Bauer.
Noun
( en-noun)
Either of the two highest trumps in euchre.
Derived terms
* best bower
* left bower
* right bower
Etymology 4
From the bow of a ship
Noun
( en-noun)
(nautical) A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
One who bows or bends.
A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.
* Spenser
- His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers / Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew.
Etymology 5
From bough, compare brancher.
Noun
( en-noun)
(obsolete|falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
( Webster 1913)
Similar to 'bower'beer, bear, buyer, boor, boar, bier, bowyer, boyar, burr, brrr, birr, bahar, bour, booer, behear, boiar, boyer, bheer
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