English Dictionary

bower

名詞

文語

A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle. / (literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.

日本語の意味

中世の城で、特に女性専用として設けられた寝室または私人用の住居 / 住居、または隠れ家として用いられる風光明媚な田舎の別荘

She retreated to her bower to read by the candlelight.

彼女はろうそくの明かりで読書をするために淑女の私室に戻った。

意味（1）

A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.

Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, / And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower.

意味（2）

(literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.

While friends arrived in circles gay, To visit Damon's bower

意味（3）

A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.

[…]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; […]

意味（4）

(ornithology) A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.

bowers （ plural ）