bower

Pluralbowers

Formsbowers, bowering, bowered

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   leafy shelternouncountable

   A shady place in a garden or forest with leaves and branches all around it.

   We ate our lunch in a shady bower at the end of the garden.

   The children made a secret bower under the low branches of the trees.

   Similararbor, nook

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   bird courtshipnouncountable

   A big structure of grass and sticks, decorated with bright things, that a male bowerbird uses to attract a mate.

   A female bird came to look at his bower and the shiny things around it.

   The male bird built his bower from grass and decorated it with blue flowers.

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   castle bedroomnouncountable

   A bedroom or private rooms, especially those of a woman living in a castle long ago.

   The princess stayed in her bower at the top of the castle.

   Only her maids were allowed to enter the queen's bower.

   Similarchamber, boudoir

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4. 4
   country cottagenounliterarycountable

   A home, often a pretty little house in the country where people go to rest and get away.

   They left the busy city and moved to a little bower in the country.

   The poet left the city and lived in a quiet bower among the hills.

   Similarretreat, cottage, hideaway

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   ship's anchornouncountable

   A kind of anchor kept at the front of a ship.

   The sailors dropped the bower when the ship reached the bay.

   The old ship carried two bowers, one on each side of its front.

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   card gamenouncountable

   In the card games euchre and five hundred, either of the two strongest trump cards when no joker is used.

   In our euchre game, Grandpa played his bower and won the last trick.

   In euchre, the right bower is the strongest card in the deck.

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7. 7
   verbtransitive

   To surround or close something in, often with trees or plants.

   Their cottage was bowered in climbing roses.

   The cabin was bowered in pine trees and hard to find.

   UsageUsually bowered in trees or flowers.

   Similarenclose, shelter, shade, surround

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