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bower

/baʊ.əɹ/ noun

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In Latin: trichila, triclea Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about bower at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

  1. A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
  2. A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
  3. A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.

verb

  1. To embower; to enclose.
  2. To lodge.

noun

  1. A peasant; a farmer.

noun

  1. Either of the two highest trumps in the card games euchre and five hundred (where the joker is omitted).

Origin

From Middle English bour, from Old English būr, from Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būrą (“room, abode”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Búur (“storage room, utility room; cage”), German Bauer (“birdcage”), Old Norse búr (“cage”) (Danish bur, Norwegian Bokmål bur, Swedish bur).

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