Other forms: bowers
A bower is a shady leafy shelter in a garden. A rose bower, sit in the bower, a leafy bower.
It is made of growing plants trained over a frame rather than built, which is what distinguishes it from an arbour in careful use — though the two words are used interchangeably. The bowerbird builds and decorates one to attract a mate. Note that the Old English word meant a room or dwelling.
1nounbowerA shady leafy shelter in a garden.
“The lovers met in a shady bower of roses at the bottom of the garden.”
bower is a shelter.
Old English bur meant a room or dwelling. German Bauer, a birdcage, comes from the same word.
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰuH-
Proto-Germanic
*būrą — room, abode
Proto-West Germanic
*būr
Old English
būr
Middle English
bour
English, today
bower
From Middle English bour, from Old English būr, from Proto-West Germanic būr, from Proto-Germanic būrą (“room, abode”). Cognate with stq Búur (“storage room, utility room; cage”), German Bauer (“birdcage”), Old Norse búr (“cage”) (Danish bur, Norwegian Bokmål bur, Swedish bur).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA