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bower

[bou-er] / ˈbaʊ ər /


NOUN
rustic dwelling
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A bower of roses, fragrant herbs and bodacious blooms might set one gardener’s heart aflutter, while another finds the sweet spot among spiky agaves, exotic palms or a bountiful row of summer raspberries.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2024

As it did in Robert Longbottom’s 2019 production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s musical “Into the Woods,” which coincidentally also follows a group of rowdy, mixed-up characters into a supernatural bower.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2022

Both stories of the gabled, 1,500-square-foot house, for instance, are framed at the end of the curving bower like a portrait in a cameo necklace.

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2019

Visiting Barbara Kingsolver on her farm in Appalachia feels like entering some form of enchanted bower.

From The Guardian • Oct. 8, 2018

The two women had lived together 'on the far side of the campus in “The Cottage” a shingled bower that occupied a place in school mythology akin to Lincoln’s log cabin in national legend.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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