bower
IPA: bˈaʊɝ
noun
- A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
- (literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
- A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
- (ornithology) A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.
- A peasant; a farmer.
- Either of the two highest trumps in euchre.
- (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.
- One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow.
- (obsolete, falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
- A surname.
verb
- To embower; to enclose.
- (obsolete) To lodge.
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Examples of "bower" in Sentences
- Bower purchased the and the mills.
- Bower's better known as ellington.
- The jury found in favour of Bower.
- They go back into the bower together.
- And leave the lady and the bower to him.
- The knight enters the bower and kills the lover.
- The issue in Bowers involved the right of privacy.
- After the dissolution it passed to the Bower family.
- Gudrun hears the cry as she sits aghast in her bower.
- The tired Princess lies down beneath the leafy bower and falls asleep.
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