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Word entry · 5 letters

bower

Best crossword clue

"Leafy shelter"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈbaʊə(ɹ)/Part of speech verb, nounSorted beorwStarts with BEnds with R1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. enclose in a bower

Word origin

From Middle English bour, from Old English būr, from Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būrą (“room, abode”).

Used in a sentence

  • Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, / And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower.
  • Rosa refused to return to the lair of the raper, but was induced to give Tudy what his mother described as ‘his last bit of happiness’ in a bower hastily got ready at Montrose, the La Plante mansion on Greenock Heights.
  • While friends arrived in circles gay, To visit Damon's bower

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