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Meanings of bower in English

Portuguese
pérgola
Catalan
pèrgola
Spanish
pérgola

A framework that supports climbing plants.

        pérgola
        Spanish
        emparrar

        Enclose in a bower.

              emparrar
              Usage of bower in English
              1
              Gerda passed to the bower presently, and left us in the hall.
              A Sea Queen's Sailing
              2
              Buttons and her friends found the young mustang in a nearby bower.
              The adventures of button
              3
              From under the thatched roof of our bower came the sounds of:
              Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
              4
              Bit of a lake; bathing-shed; the Naiad's bower: pretty water to see.'
              One of Our Conquerors — Complete
              5
              Diamond discovered that bower building was not innate, at least not entirely.
              BBC
              6
              The room was a bower of violets and lilies of the valley.
              Senator North
              7
              Another day found Necile's bower the most popular place in the Forest.
              The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
              8
              One was for the bower and the other was for use out-of-doors.
              An American Robinson Crusoe
              9
              The battle-field and the bower alike had been wooing-ground for her smiles.
              Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy
              10
              His house is in a thick bower of evergreen and horse-chestnut trees.
              Memories of Hawthorne
              11
              Sport with him whose love-abode is the floor of the beautiful bower.
              The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry
              12
              For seven weeks Kriemhild and her maidens were busy in their bower.
              Young Folks' Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) / Myths and Legendary He...
              13
              They emerged from the ladies' bower into the stir of the antechamber.
              V. V.'s Eyes
              14
              Near by they built a large bower for themselves to live in.
              Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories
              15
              She made a graceful gesture to a bower set amid flowering bushes.
              Doom of the Dragon
              16
              Everything was put into the bower where rain could not harm it.
              An American Robinson Crusoe
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              Translations for bower
              Portuguese
              pérgola
              Bower through the time
              Bower across language varieties
              United Kingdom
              Common
              United States of America
              Less common