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Definitioner
Substantiv
- A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
- A peasant; a farmer.
- Either of the two highest trumps in euchre.
- (nautical) A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
- (obsolete, falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
- (literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
- One who bows or bends.
- A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
- A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.
- (ornithology) A large structure made of grass and bright objects, used by the bower bird during courtship displays.
Verb
- To embower; to enclose.
- (obsolete) To lodge.
Exempel
- Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, / And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower.
- [...]say that thou overheard'st us,
- And bid her steal into the pleached bower,
- Where honey-suckles, ripen'd by the sun,
- Forbid the sun to enter;[...]
- [...]belts of thin white mist streaked the brown plough land in the hollow where Appleby could see the pale shine of a winding river. Across that in turn, meadow and coppice rolled away past the white walls of a village bowered in orchards,[...]
- His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers / Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew.
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