bower

Everyday

1. A shady, pleasant place in a garden or wood, under trees or climbing plants. tree →
2. (poetic, old) A private room or bedroom, especially a lady's. tree →
3. The display made by a bowerbird. tree →

In the lessons

In poems and old stories, lovers meet in a rose bower. In science, the male bowerbird of Australia and New Guinea builds a bower and decorates it with blue things to attract a female.

Examples

• They rested in a bower of roses. tree →
• The bowerbird decorated its bower with blue bottle tops. tree →
• The princess sat in her bower. tree →
• Ivy made a green bower over the bench. tree →
• The garden had a shady bower for reading. tree →
• When completed, it was a sweet rural bower, roofed overhead with an arch of living boughs. tree →

Note

Rhymes with «flower». Old-fashioned and poetic in most senses.