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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
Synonyms
Examples for "embower"
Examples for "embower"
1
Like a rose embower'd in its own green leaves
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases / A Practical Handbook Of Pertin...
2
Then to Walden pond, that beautiful embower'd sheet of water, and spent over an hour there.
Complete Prose Works / Specimen Days and Collect, November Bough...
3
The ancient and hereditary groves, too, that embower this island, are most of them full of story.
Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists
4
The walls of the palaces are embowered in eucalyptus, acacia and cypress trees.
The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition / A P...
5
The fronds of the trees reached over and embowered the lane.
Through stained glass / A Novel
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