Meanings
nounbowre (plural bowres)
plural bowres
- obsoleteObsolete form of bower.
Repeated, she to him as oft engagd : To be return'd by Noon amid the Bowre
1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC1 more example
A stately Pallace built of squared bricke, / ... / Full of faire windows, and delightful bowres
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 4
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